enfilade

\ɑ̃.fi.lad\

/\ɑ̃.fi.lad\/ noun

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The verdict

“enfilade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,141. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,141
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite de pièces d’un appartement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-enfilade · enfilade · French

enfilade · rank #46,141 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #46,141
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH empreints

Nearest frequency peer: empreints (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « enfilade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « enfilade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

enfilade vs enfile
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for enfilade
PropertyValue
Headwordenfilade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.fi.lad\
Letters8
Frequency rank#46,141
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enfilade »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.enfiladese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « empreints » (#46,140), « enflammées » (#46,142), « emplit » (#46,139). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enfilade » est au #46,141. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around enfilade (IPA \ɑ̃.fi.lad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,141 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for enfilade, with forms such as "efnilade", "enffilade", and "enfialde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "enfile", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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. The correct French form is enfilade, spelled E-N-F-I-L-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Suite de pièces d’un appartement.
  2. 2
    Suite ou série longue et ennuyeuse.
  3. 3
    Action de tirer des coups de canon sur une troupe, une fortification, un navire dans le sens de leur longueur.
  4. 4
    Meuble composé d’au moins trois éléments à la suite l’un de l’autre et sur le même plan.
  5. 5
    Situation dans laquelle une pièce attaque deux pièces alignées où la pièce ennemie de plus grande valeur fait l’objet de l’attaque directe, à la différence d’un clouage.
  6. 6
    Suite de messages consécutifs portant sur un même objet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enfilade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En ornant la façade, il contribuait à donner des dégagements aux pièces d’enfilade.
  2. Je poussai d'un coup de pied la porte de la salle à manger, à demi éclairée, comme le salon d'enfilade, par les vitrages donnant sur la serre.

Synonyms

conversationfil de discussionfil d’intérêtthread

This word in other languages

enfilade(English)enfilada(Español)Enfilade(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • efnilade
  • enffilade
  • enfialde
  • enfiladde
  • enfilaed
  • enfildae
  • enfillade
  • enfliade
  • eniflade
  • ennfilade
  • nefilade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enfilade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

efnilade2enffilade1enfialde2enfiladde1enfilaed2enfildae2enfillade1enfliade2
Edit distance from "enfilade"

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 "enfilade"?
"enfilade" is spelled E-N-F-I-L-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.fi.lad\.
What does "enfilade" mean?
As a noun, "enfilade" means: Suite de pièces d’un appartement.
What words are commonly confused with "enfilade"?
"enfilade" is commonly confused with "enfile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "enfilade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enfilade" is \ɑ̃.fi.lad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enfilade" come from?
"enfilade" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enfilade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dévolues#46,133dépasses#46,131décocher#46,126dureront#46,119

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

engouffre11 variantsempilés11 variantsenneigées11 variantsdévolus11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list