enfuyant
\ɑ̃.fɥi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“enfuyant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,760 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,760
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de enfuir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfuyant · enfuyant · French
enfuyant · rank #74,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endurcie
Nearest frequency peer: endurcie (-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 « enfuyant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encéphalique
encéphalique
25,244 corpus weight
- endeuillée
endeuillée
25,243 corpus weight
- endurcie
endurcie
25,242 corpus weight
- enfuyant
enfuyant
25,241 corpus weight
- enjoliveurs
enjoliveurs
25,240 corpus weight
- enki
enki
25,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfuyant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfuyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɥi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfuyant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfuyant is uncommon French at frequency #74,760 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɥi.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de enfuir.".
enfuyant has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is enfuyant, spelled E-N-F-U-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de enfuir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enfuyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oiseau picoreur, s’enfuyant le gosier plein, et gazouillant un air pour tout remerciement.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).