engineer
\ɛn.d͡ʒɪˈnɪə\
The verdict
“engineer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,970 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,970
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ingénieur, ingénieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engineer · engineer · French
engineer · rank #62,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,970
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfreignent
Nearest frequency peer: enfreignent (-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 « engineer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endurées
endurées
37,034 corpus weight
- enfantins
enfantins
37,033 corpus weight
- enfreignent
enfreignent
37,032 corpus weight
- engineer
engineer
37,031 corpus weight
- engueulent
engueulent
37,030 corpus weight
- entrelacés
entrelacés
37,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engineer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engineer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.d͡ʒɪˈnɪə\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engineer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engineer is uncommon French at frequency #62,970 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛn.d͡ʒɪˈnɪə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for engineer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 engineer, spelled E-N-G-I-N-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ingénieur, ingénieure.
- 2Machiniste.
- 3Génie civil, génie marine, etc. (civil engineer, naval engineer, etc.)
- 4Conducteur d'un train.
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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