engorgé
\ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“engorgé” is uncommon French (frequency #93,735 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,735
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un cheval dont les jambes sont gonflées par le sang et les humeurs, qui ne circulent pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engorge · engorgé · French
engorgé · rank #93,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,735
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endossent
Nearest frequency peer: endossent (-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 « engorgé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enchevêtrés
enchevêtrés
6,270 corpus weight
- endormez
endormez
6,269 corpus weight
- endoscopique
endoscopique
6,268 corpus weight
- endossent
endossent
6,267 corpus weight
- engorgé
engorgé
6,266 corpus weight
- Enos
Enos
6,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engorgé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engorgé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engorgé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engorgé is uncommon French at frequency #93,735 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’un cheval dont les jambes sont gonflées par le sang et les humeurs, qui ne circulent pas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for engorgé, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 engorgé, spelled E-N-G-O-R-G-É.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un cheval dont les jambes sont gonflées par le sang et les humeurs, qui ne circulent pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engorgé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce cheval a les jambes engorgées.
Une respiration engorgée, saccadée, agitait les naseaux.
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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