enfilée
\ɑ̃.fi.le\
The verdict
“enfilée” is uncommon French (frequency #94,763 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,763
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de enfilé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfilee · enfilée · French
enfilée · rank #94,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,763
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endossant
Nearest frequency peer: endossant (-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 « enfilée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encyclopédi…
encyclopédistes
5,241 corpus weight
- endettent
endettent
5,240 corpus weight
- endossant
endossant
5,239 corpus weight
- enfilée
enfilée
5,238 corpus weight
- engueulée
engueulée
5,236 corpus weight
- enjoués
enjoués
5,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfilée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfilée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfilée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfilée is uncommon French at frequency #94,763 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.fi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de enfilé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enfilée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is enfilée, spelled E-N-F-I-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de enfilé.
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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