enfumé
\ɑ̃.fy.me\
The verdict
“enfumé” is uncommon French (frequency #69,045 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,045
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne victime d'une tromperie par enfumage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfume · enfumé · French
enfumé · rank #69,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,045
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfonça
Nearest frequency peer: enfonça (-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 « enfumé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elegant
elegant
30,958 corpus weight
- enfonça
enfonça
30,957 corpus weight
- enfumé
enfumé
30,956 corpus weight
- engageront
engageront
30,955 corpus weight
- engineers
engineers
30,954 corpus weight
- enlisement
enlisement
30,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfumé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfumé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fy.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfumé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfumé is uncommon French at frequency #69,045 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fy.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for enfumé in our index, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 enfumé, spelled E-N-F-U-M-É.
Definition
- 1Personne victime d'une tromperie par enfumage.
- 2On appelle ainsi les vieilles épreuves de gravure dont le papier a pris une teinte jaunâtre, ou encore un tableau exposé intentionnellement à la fumée pour faire croire à son ancienneté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enfumé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes tous des enfumés !
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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