enflée
\ɑ̃.fle\
The verdict
“enflée” is uncommon French (frequency #61,500 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,500
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de enflé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enflee · enflée · French
enflée · rank #61,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,500
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ene
Nearest frequency peer: ene (-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 « enflée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emphysème
emphysème
38,503 corpus weight
- ene
ene
38,502 corpus weight
- enflée
enflée
38,501 corpus weight
- enfoncement
enfoncement
38,500 corpus weight
- engendrerait
engendrerait
38,499 corpus weight
- enivrante
enivrante
38,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enflée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enflée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fle\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enflée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enflée is uncommon French at frequency #61,500 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.fle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de enflé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enflée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is enflée, spelled E-N-F-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de enflé.
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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