englobait
\ɑ̃.ɡlɔ.bɛ\
The verdict
“englobait” is uncommon French (frequency #80,178 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,178
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de englober.
Corpus desk
Index FR-englobait · englobait · French
englobait · rank #80,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,178
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engendrait
Nearest frequency peer: engendrait (-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 « englobait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enduites
enduites
19,826 corpus weight
- enfuyait
enfuyait
19,825 corpus weight
- engendrait
engendrait
19,824 corpus weight
- englobait
englobait
19,823 corpus weight
- Enola
Enola
19,822 corpus weight
- ensanglanté…
ensanglantées
19,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « englobait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | englobait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡlɔ.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « englobait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
englobait is uncommon French at frequency #80,178 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡlɔ.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de englober.".
englobait has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is englobait, spelled E-N-G-L-O-B-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de englober.
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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