enflaquer
\ɑ̃.fla.ke\
The verdict
“enflaquer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emprisonner, arrêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enflaquer · enflaquer · French
enflaquer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enflaquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fla.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enflaquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enflaquer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fla.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Emprisonner, arrêter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enflaquer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is enflaquer, spelled E-N-F-L-A-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Emprisonner, arrêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enflaquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S'il n'y a que moi pour les enflaquer, ils pourront bien décarer de belle.
Il paraitrait qu'il avait fait enflaquer par les cognes Armand « le coq » qui essayait de lui endormir la moitié de son commerce.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.