engourdi
\ɑ̃.ɡuʁ.di\
The verdict
“engourdi” is uncommon French (frequency #66,716 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,716
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépourvu à la fois de mobilité et de sensibilité, en général momentanément et pour une cause extérieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engourdi · engourdi · French
engourdi · rank #66,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,716
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enjambées
Nearest frequency peer: enjambées (+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 « engourdi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enflures
enflures
33,288 corpus weight
- enfuirent
enfuirent
33,287 corpus weight
- engourdi
engourdi
33,285 corpus weight
- enjambées
enjambées
33,284 corpus weight
- ensilage
ensilage
33,283 corpus weight
- entache
entache
33,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engourdi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engourdi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡuʁ.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engourdi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engourdi is uncommon French at frequency #66,716 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡuʁ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for engourdi 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is engourdi, spelled E-N-G-O-U-R-D-I.
Definition
- 1Dépourvu à la fois de mobilité et de sensibilité, en général momentanément et pour une cause extérieure.
- 2Qui manque de vivacité d’esprit, de répartie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engourdi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme des abeilles sortent des ruches, des milliers de mobiles s’échappaient des tentes, en s’étirant. L’un avait le bras endolori, l’autre la jambe engourdie.
Parfois les rênes s’échappent de nos doigts engourdis, et nos montures aveuglées, tournant le dos à la tempête, refusent d’avancer.
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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