engloutissant

\ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engloutissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for engloutissant
PropertyValue
Headwordengloutissant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#90,692
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « engloutissant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.engloutissanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « emportements » (#90,691), « engueules » (#90,693), « enrhumée » (#90,694). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « engloutissant » est au #90,692. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui engloutit, qui est propre à engloutir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how engloutissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engloutissant"?
"engloutissant" is spelled E-N-G-L-O-U-T-I-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\.
What does "engloutissant" mean?
As an adjective, "engloutissant" means: Qui engloutit, qui est propre à engloutir.
How do you pronounce "engloutissant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "engloutissant" is \ɑ̃.ɡlu.ti.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "engloutissant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list