engourdissement
\ɑ̃.ɡuʁ.dis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“engourdissement” is uncommon French (frequency #55,932 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,932
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d'engourdir ; état de ce qui est engourdi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engourdissement · engourdissement · French
engourdissement · rank #55,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,932
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfonces
Nearest frequency peer: enfonces (-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 « engourdissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endormissem…
endormissement
44,072 corpus weight
- enduro
enduro
44,071 corpus weight
- enfonces
enfonces
44,070 corpus weight
- engourdisse…
engourdissement
44,069 corpus weight
- enneigés
enneigés
44,068 corpus weight
- enracine
enracine
44,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engourdissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engourdissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡuʁ.dis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #55,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engourdissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engourdissement is uncommon French at frequency #55,932 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡuʁ.dis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d'engourdir ; état de ce qui est engourdi.".
Zero misspellings are on record for engourdissement in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is engourdissement, spelled E-N-G-O-U-R-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d'engourdir ; état de ce qui est engourdi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engourdissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A peine couchée, ou plutôt à peine endormie, elle sentait son bras droit tomber dans l'engourdissement, et elle ne se réveillait qu'au moment où cet engourdissement lui semblait gagner le cœur.
Ce que fut mon enfance ? Un long engourdissement.
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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