engraisse
\ɑ̃.ɡʁɛs\
The verdict
“engraisse” is uncommon French (frequency #63,719 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,719
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de engraisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engraisse · engraisse · French
engraisse · rank #63,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,719
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endormies
Nearest frequency peer: endormies (-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 « engraisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empilées
empilées
36,285 corpus weight
- emprises
emprises
36,284 corpus weight
- endormies
endormies
36,283 corpus weight
- engraisse
engraisse
36,282 corpus weight
- enjambant
enjambant
36,281 corpus weight
- ensemenceme…
ensemencement
36,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engraisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engraisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engraisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engraisse is uncommon French at frequency #63,719 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
engraisse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is engraisse, spelled E-N-G-R-A-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de engraisser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de engraisser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de engraisser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de engraisser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de engraisser.
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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