engloutissant
\ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“engloutissant” is uncommon French (frequency #90,692 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,692
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui engloutit, qui est propre à engloutir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engloutissant · engloutissant · French
engloutissant · rank #90,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,692
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emportements
Nearest frequency peer: emportements (-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 « engloutissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ember
ember
9,313 corpus weight
- embrassées
embrassées
9,312 corpus weight
- emportements
emportements
9,310 corpus weight
- engloutissa…
engloutissant
9,309 corpus weight
- engueules
engueules
9,308 corpus weight
- enrhumée
enrhumée
9,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engloutissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engloutissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #90,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engloutissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engloutissant is uncommon French at frequency #90,692 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui engloutit, qui est propre à engloutir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for engloutissant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is engloutissant, spelled E-N-G-L-O-U-T-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui engloutit, qui est propre à engloutir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engloutissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'était d'un vert obscur presque noir ; ça semblait instable, perfide, engloutissant ; ça remuait et ça se démenait partout à la fois, avec un air de méchanceté sinistre.
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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