engorgement
\ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“engorgement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,584. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,584
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’engorger ou état de ce qui est engorgé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engorgement · engorgement · French
engorgement · rank #45,584 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,584
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engloutie
Nearest frequency peer: engloutie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « engorgement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- egan
egan
54,421 corpus weight
- embelli
embelli
54,420 corpus weight
- engloutie
engloutie
54,418 corpus weight
- engorgement
engorgement
54,417 corpus weight
- enracinée
enracinée
54,416 corpus weight
- ensuivit
ensuivit
54,414 corpus weight
What this shows « engorgement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engorgement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #45,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « engorgement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around engorgement (IPA \ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,584 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for engorgement, with forms such as "egnorgement", "enggorgement", and "engogrement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "énormément", "engouement", "engagement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is engorgement, spelled E-N-G-O-R-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’engorger ou état de ce qui est engorgé.
- 2Saturation en eau, ennoiement du sol.
- 3État de sursollicitation d'un service public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engorgement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même que toutes les autres parties situées au fond de la bouche, les tonsilles sont sujettes à différentes sortes d’engorgements dont la nature varie autant que les suites.
L’engorgement a fait crever ces tuyaux.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnorgement
- enggorgement
- engogrement
- engoregment
- engorgeemnt
- engorgemennt
- engorgementt
- engorgemetn
- engorgemment
- engorgemnet
- engorggement
- engorgmeent
- engorrgement
- engrogement
- enngorgement
- enogrgement
- negorgement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of engorgement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "engorgement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).