Enghien
\ɑ̃.ɡɛ̃\
The verdict
“Enghien” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,425
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enghien · Enghien · French
Enghien · rank #27,425 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,425
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfoui
Nearest frequency peer: enfoui (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Enghien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- embryons
embryons
72,579 corpus weight
- enchanteur
enchanteur
72,578 corpus weight
- enfoui
enfoui
72,577 corpus weight
- Enghien
Enghien
72,576 corpus weight
- entraves
entraves
72,575 corpus weight
- envisageait
envisageait
72,574 corpus weight
What this shows « Enghien » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Enghien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Enghien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Enghien (IPA \ɑ̃.ɡɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,425 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Enghien, with forms such as "egnhien", "engghien", and "enghein". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "engin", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Enghien, spelled E-N-G-H-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Enghien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle [la combinaison en] a le son nasal ain (comme dans pain, sain, etc.), […] nᵒ 4 À la fin des substantifs et des noms propres français, et aussi à la fin des noms propres étrangers quand ceux-ci sont terminés par éen, ien, comme dans Adrien, Agen (ville), Appien, Arménien, Ayen (bourg), Bastien, Biscayen (qui est de la Biscaye), Capétien, Chaldéen, chi…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnhien
- engghien
- enghein
- enghhien
- enghienn
- enghine
- engihen
- enhgien
- ennghien
- neghien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Enghien - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).