enfonces
\ɑ̃.fɔ̃s\
The verdict
“enfonces” is uncommon French (frequency #55,931 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,931
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de enfoncer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfonces · enfonces · French
enfonces · rank #55,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,931
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enduro
Nearest frequency peer: enduro (-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 « enfonces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encombrée
encombrée
44,073 corpus weight
- endormissem…
endormissement
44,072 corpus weight
- enduro
enduro
44,071 corpus weight
- enfonces
enfonces
44,070 corpus weight
- engourdisse…
engourdissement
44,069 corpus weight
- enneigés
enneigés
44,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfonces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfonces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfonces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfonces is uncommon French at frequency #55,931 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɔ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
enfonces doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is enfonces, spelled E-N-F-O-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de enfoncer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de enfoncer.
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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