enfilent
\ɑ̃.fil\
The verdict
“enfilent” is uncommon French (frequency #75,652 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,652
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enfiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfilent · enfilent · French
enfilent · rank #75,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,652
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embardée
Nearest frequency peer: embardée (-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 « enfilent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Elbaz
Elbaz
24,354 corpus weight
- embardée
embardée
24,350 corpus weight
- enfilent
enfilent
24,349 corpus weight
- enflent
enflent
24,348 corpus weight
- engourdis
engourdis
24,347 corpus weight
- enrobées
enrobées
24,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfilent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfilent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfilent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfilent is uncommon French at frequency #75,652 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for enfilent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enfilent, spelled E-N-F-I-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enfiler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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