engrais
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,578
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
engrais is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pâture qu’on donne à des volailles et aux bœufs destinés à la boucherie, pour les engraisser. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡʁɛ\. Often confused with entrain and entrait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for engrais is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ɡʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,578 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for engrais, with forms such as "egnrais", "engaris", and "enggrais". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "entrain", "entrait", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is engrais, spelled E-N-G-R-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pâture qu’on donne à des volailles et aux bœufs destinés à la boucherie, pour les engraisser.
- 2Fumiers et autres matières organiques ou chimiques qu’on répand sur la terre ou qu’on y enfonce pour la fertiliser.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egnrais,engaris,enggrais,engraiss,engrasi,engrias,engrrais,enngrais,enrgais,negrais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for engrais
Misspelling Variants of "engrais"
Frequency rank: #11,578 in French
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