engeance
\ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“engeance” is uncommon French (frequency #55,250 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,250
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race ou espèce animale, en particulier des espèces de volatiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engeance · engeance · French
engeance · rank #55,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,250
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engagerait
Nearest frequency peer: engagerait (-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 « engeance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encrier
encrier
44,754 corpus weight
- endométriose
endométriose
44,753 corpus weight
- engagerait
engagerait
44,752 corpus weight
- engeance
engeance
44,751 corpus weight
- engloutit
engloutit
44,750 corpus weight
- engrange
engrange
44,749 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engeance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engeance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engeance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engeance is uncommon French at frequency #55,250 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for engeance in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 engeance, spelled E-N-G-E-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Race ou espèce animale, en particulier des espèces de volatiles.
- 2Progéniture ; enfants ; descendance.
- 3Ensemble d’hommes ; catégorie ou sorte d’hommes.
- 4Catégorie de personnes jugées dignes de mépris ou détestables.
- 5Ensemble de choses que l’on méprise.
- 6Catégorie d’animaux que l’on méprise ou dont on se méfie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engeance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces canes, ces poules sont d’une belle engeance.
S’il y a quelque loi vraiment naturelle, […] après le soin que chaque animal a de sa conservation, et de fuir ce qui nuit, l’affection que l’engendrant porte à son engeance, tient le second lieu en ce rang.
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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