engouement

\ɑ̃.ɡu.mɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.ɡu.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“engouement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,962
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de s’engouer ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-engouement · engouement · French

engouement · rank #12,962 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,962
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH enfoirés

Nearest frequency peer: enfoirés (-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 « engouement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « engouement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

engouement vs enrôlement
70% similar
engouement vs enroulement
82% similar
engouement vs engagement
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for engouement
PropertyValue
Headwordengouement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ɡu.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#12,962
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « engouement »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.engouementse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « enfoirés » (#12,961), « enseignante » (#12,963), « effondre » (#12,960). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « engouement » est au #12,962. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around engouement (IPA \ɑ̃.ɡu.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,962 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de s’engouer ou résultat de cette action.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for engouement, with forms such as "egnouement", "enggouement", and "engoeument". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "enrôlement", "enroulement", "engagement", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is engouement, spelled E-N-G-O-U-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de s’engouer ou résultat de cette action.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La popularité du prince Louis-Napoléon leur parut un engouement passager de la foule dont on aurait facilement raison.
  2. L’engouement pour l’aéronautique commençait.

Antonyms

désengouement

This word in other languages

hype(English)frenesí(Español)Begeisterung(Deutsch)entusiasmo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • egnouement
  • enggouement
  • engoeument
  • engoueemnt
  • engouemennt
  • engouementt
  • engouemetn
  • engouemment
  • engouemnet
  • engoumeent
  • enguoement
  • enngouement
  • enoguement
  • negouement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of engouement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

egnouement2enggouement1engoeument2engoueemnt2engouemennt1engouementt1engouemetn2engouemment1
Edit distance from "engouement"

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 "engouement"?
"engouement" is spelled E-N-G-O-U-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ɡu.mɑ̃\.
What does "engouement" mean?
As a noun, "engouement" means: Action de s’engouer ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "engouement"?
"engouement" is commonly confused with "enrôlement", "enroulement", "engagement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "engouement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "engouement" is \ɑ̃.ɡu.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "engouement" come from?
"engouement" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

entraînent#12,964favorisant#12,967festivités#12,968dispersion#12,949

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

craignent14 variantsCopenhague14 variantsinspirant14 variantscaptivité14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list