enfermes
\ɑ̃.fɛʁm\
The verdict
“enfermes” is uncommon French (frequency #91,658 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,658
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de enfermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfermes · enfermes · French
enfermes · rank #91,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,658
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endocardite
Nearest frequency peer: endocardite (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « enfermes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encapsulati…
encapsulation
8,347 corpus weight
- encyclopaed…
encyclopaedia
8,346 corpus weight
- endocardite
endocardite
8,344 corpus weight
- enfermes
enfermes
8,343 corpus weight
- enfumée
enfumée
8,342 corpus weight
- ennuyaient
ennuyaient
8,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfermes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfermes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfermes is uncommon French at frequency #91,658 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɛʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
enfermes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enfermes, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de enfermer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de enfermer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "enfermes"?
What does "enfermes" mean?
How do you pronounce "enfermes"?
What language does "enfermes" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enfermes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).