enfonçait
\ɑ̃.fɔ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“enfonçait” is uncommon French (frequency #59,260 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,260
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfoncer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfoncait · enfonçait · French
enfonçait · rank #59,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,260
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfantillages
Nearest frequency peer: enfantillages (-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 « enfonçait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emboîter
emboîter
40,744 corpus weight
- encablures
encablures
40,743 corpus weight
- enfantillag…
enfantillages
40,742 corpus weight
- enfonçait
enfonçait
40,741 corpus weight
- enivrer
enivrer
40,740 corpus weight
- enregistrera
enregistrera
40,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfonçait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfonçait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɔ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfonçait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfonçait is uncommon French at frequency #59,260 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɔ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfoncer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enfonçait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is enfonçait, spelled E-N-F-O-N-Ç-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfoncer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfonçait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hassan acquiesça, cette conversation enfonçait un coin dans son classement en DPS.
Jacques Bernard, soigneusement, réenfournait dans sa poches les pièces d’argent qu’il en avait tirées… puis il prenait son chapeau, dégringolait son escalier, s’enfonçait dans l'atmosphère brumeuse et glaciale, enténébrant la rue tortueuse, où se dressait son logement.
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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