enfilait
\ɑ̃.fi.lɛ\
The verdict
“enfilait” is uncommon French (frequency #97,931 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,931
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfilait · enfilait · French
enfilait · rank #97,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,931
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enlevaient
Nearest frequency peer: enlevaient (+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 « enfilait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endiablées
endiablées
2,073 corpus weight
- endéans
endéans
2,072 corpus weight
- enfilait
enfilait
2,070 corpus weight
- enlevaient
enlevaient
2,069 corpus weight
- enracinent
enracinent
2,068 corpus weight
- enrouée
enrouée
2,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfilait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfilait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fi.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfilait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfilait is uncommon French at frequency #97,931 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fi.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfiler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enfilait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is enfilait, spelled E-N-F-I-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfiler.
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.
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