enfumer
\ɑ̃.fy.me\
The verdict
“enfumer” is uncommon French (frequency #51,444 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,444
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emplir ou couvrir de fumée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfumer · enfumer · French
enfumer · rank #51,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,444
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endorme
Nearest frequency peer: endorme (-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 « enfumer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encastrée
encastrée
48,560 corpus weight
- encerclement
encerclement
48,559 corpus weight
- endorme
endorme
48,558 corpus weight
- enfumer
enfumer
48,557 corpus weight
- engueulade
engueulade
48,556 corpus weight
- enjoignant
enjoignant
48,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fy.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfumer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfumer is uncommon French at frequency #51,444 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fy.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for enfumer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is enfumer, spelled E-N-F-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Emplir ou couvrir de fumée.
- 2Noircir artificiellement et à dessein par la fumée.
- 3Incommoder par la fumée.
- 4Calmer, par la fumée, les abeilles d'une ruche.
- 5Obliger par la fumée, le gibier à sortir de ses terriers.
- 6Chercher à tromper, à mystifier, par des paroles ou des actions dilatoires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tirage défectueux de la cheminée a enfumé cette pièce.
Enfumer des tableaux pour les faire paraître anciens.
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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