engendra
\ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃.dʁa\
The verdict
“engendra” is uncommon French (frequency #54,558 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,558
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de engendrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engendra · engendra · French
engendra · rank #54,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,558
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enivrant
Nearest frequency peer: enivrant (+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 « engendra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encaissée
encaissée
45,447 corpus weight
- Ende
Ende
45,446 corpus weight
- engendra
engendra
45,443 corpus weight
- enivrant
enivrant
45,442 corpus weight
- enjamber
enjamber
45,441 corpus weight
- entrecoupée
entrecoupée
45,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engendra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engendra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃.dʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engendra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engendra is uncommon French at frequency #54,558 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃.dʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de engendrer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for engendra in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is engendra, spelled E-N-G-E-N-D-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de engendrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engendra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lutte de la police générale du royaume et de la contre-police du roi engendra d’horribles affaires dont le secret a été gardé par quelques échafauds.
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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