enfroqué
\ɑ̃.fʁɔ.ke\
The verdict
“enfroqué” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revêtu du froc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfroque · enfroqué · French
enfroqué · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | enfroqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fʁɔ.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfroqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfroqué is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.fʁɔ.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for enfroqué in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enfroqué, spelled E-N-F-R-O-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Revêtu du froc.
- 2Dévot, bigot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfroqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suit le char de Carême, empereur des mangeurs de merluches. Des figures blêmes, vertes, décharnées, enfroquées, renfrognées, grelottantes sous des capuchons, ou coiffées en têtes de poissons.
– Tu l’as dit ! tonna Honoré, et tu ne l’as pas dit franchement ! parce que tu ne sais rien dire franchement ! que tu seras toujours le même jésuite avec tes airs de mourir pour la République tous les matins ! C’est comme ton général Boulanger, qu’est-ce que c’est encore, celui-là ? Un Jean-Foutre d’enfroqué avec des chapelets plein ses bottes !
Synonyms
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.