enfiler
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,608
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
enfiler is aFrenchverb. It means: Traverser d’un fil par une ouverture pratiquée à cet effet. Pronounced \ɑ̃.fi.le\. Often confused with enflé and entier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enfiler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fi.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,608 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for enfiler, with forms such as "efniler", "enffiler", and "enfielr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "enflé", "entier", "envier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enfiler, spelled E-N-F-I-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Traverser d’un fil par une ouverture pratiquée à cet effet.
- 2On dit aussi, au jeu de bague : Enfiler un anneau.
- 3Munir de ses cordes un violon ou un autre instrument à cordes.
- 4Raconter, en continu, des choses sans suite.
- 5S’engager dans.
- 6Prendre en enfilade.
- 7Percer de la pointe d’une arme.
- 8En parlant du Jeu, engager quelqu’un dans une partie désavantageuse, l’entraîner dans une grosse perte.
- 9Pénétrer lors de rapports sexuels.
- 10Mettre, passer un membre allongé (ex: des bras, jambes, (doigts de) mains) dans un vêtement (ex: des bas, un pantalon, des gants).
- 11Mettre, passer un vêtement rapidement (ex: un manteau, un pardessus, un pull).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efniler,enffiler,enfielr,enfilerr,enfiller,enfilre,enflier,enifler,ennfiler,nefiler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enfiler
Misspelling Variants of "enfiler"
Frequency rank: #16,608 in French
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