enfourcher
\ɑ̃.fuʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“enfourcher” is uncommon French (frequency #86,678 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,678
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre avec une fourche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfourcher · enfourcher · French
enfourcher · rank #86,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,678
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfourche
Nearest frequency peer: enfourche (-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 « enfourcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endurants
endurants
13,326 corpus weight
- Enfield
Enfield
13,325 corpus weight
- enfourche
enfourche
13,324 corpus weight
- enfourcher
enfourcher
13,323 corpus weight
- enluminés
enluminés
13,322 corpus weight
- enterrait
enterrait
13,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfourcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfourcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fuʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfourcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfourcher is uncommon French at frequency #86,678 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fuʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for enfourcher, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is enfourcher, spelled E-N-F-O-U-R-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prendre avec une fourche.
- 2Se placer à califourchon sur une monture (un cheval, un âne), ou un véhicule à deux roues (moto, vélo).
- 3Revenir sans cesse dans la conversation à son sujet favori, son opinion, ses lubies, etc.
- 4Passer les skis de chaque côté d’un piquet de la piste de ski.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfourcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et à Saint—Denis, précisément, dans une ferme retirée, un jeune gaillard, le torse nu malgré la fraîcheur, s'employait à enfourcher d'énormes ballots de foin.
Ces plaisirs, Félix les avait appris en même temps que le travail : défaire le foin, l’enfourcher, le hisser en haut de cette grange, vaste comme une église.
This word in other languages
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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