enflammer
\ɑ̃.fla.me\
The verdict
“enflammer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,931
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en flamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enflammer · enflammer · French
enflammer · rank #21,931 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,931
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enflamme
Nearest frequency peer: enflamme (-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 « enflammer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déposent
déposent
78,075 corpus weight
- embarcations
embarcations
78,072 corpus weight
- enflamme
enflamme
78,071 corpus weight
- enflammer
enflammer
78,070 corpus weight
- entrevues
entrevues
78,069 corpus weight
- eustache
eustache
78,065 corpus weight
What this shows « enflammer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enflammer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fla.me\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enflammer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around enflammer (IPA \ɑ̃.fla.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,931 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for enflammer, with forms such as "efnlammer", "enfalmmer", and "enfflammer". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "enflammés", "enflamme", "enflammée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is enflammer, spelled E-N-F-L-A-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en flamme.
- 2Causer une inflammation.
- 3Animer d’une vive passion, particulièrement en parlant des effets de l’amour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enflammer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En un instant, une nappe de feu se propage autour de la coque du paquebot. Ce bouillonnement provenait d’une source sous-marine de naphte, et il a suffi de ce fragment de cigare pour l’enflammer.
François s'exécuta, puis, d'un coup de pouce, il enflamma son briquet d'amadou et le tendit, en silence, à la fille.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efnlammer
- enfalmmer
- enfflammer
- enflamemr
- enflamer
- enflammerr
- enflammre
- enfllammer
- enflmamer
- enlfammer
- ennflammer
- neflammer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enflammer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).