enfermer le loup dans la bergerie
\ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me lə lu dɑ̃ la bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁi\
The verdict
“enfermer le loup dans la bergerie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 33
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Laisser se refermer une plaie sans l’avoir bien fait suppurer, au risque de laisser un mal pénétrer dans l'organisme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermer le loup dans la bergerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me lə lu dɑ̃ la bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enfermer le loup dans la bergerie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enfermer le loup dans la bergerie is 33 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me lə lu dɑ̃ la bɛʁ.ʒə.ʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for enfermer le loup dans la bergerie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enfermer le loup dans la bergerie, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-R- -L-E- -L-O-U-P- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -B-E-R-G-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Laisser se refermer une plaie sans l’avoir bien fait suppurer, au risque de laisser un mal pénétrer dans l'organisme.
- 2Introduire un élément nuisible dans une assemblée.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N-F-E-R-M-E-R- -L-E- -L-O-U-P- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -B-E-R-G-E-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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