engouffrer
\ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe\
The verdict
“engouffrer” is uncommon French (frequency #50,199 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,199
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Précipiter dans un gouffre ou dans quelque cavité qui ressemble à un gouffre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engouffrer · engouffrer · French
engouffrer · rank #50,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,199
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encart
Nearest frequency peer: encart (-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 « engouffrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empêcheront
empêcheront
49,805 corpus weight
- encaissent
encaissent
49,804 corpus weight
- encart
encart
49,803 corpus weight
- engouffrer
engouffrer
49,802 corpus weight
- ensuivent
ensuivent
49,801 corpus weight
- envahissant…
envahissantes
49,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engouffrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engouffrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engouffrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engouffrer is uncommon French at frequency #50,199 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡu.fʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for engouffrer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 engouffrer, spelled E-N-G-O-U-F-F-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Précipiter dans un gouffre ou dans quelque cavité qui ressemble à un gouffre.
- 2Absorber comme un gouffre quand une chose y tombe ou y est jetée.
- 3Se perdre dans quelque ouverture, dans un gouffre.
- 4Entrer rapidement dans un espace clos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engouffrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les vaisseaux furent engouffrés en un instant.
Engouffrer de la nourriture.
This word in other languages
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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