engrosser
\ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se\
The verdict
“engrosser” is uncommon French (frequency #89,676 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,676
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre une femme enceinte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engrosser · engrosser · French
engrosser · rank #89,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,676
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH englués
Nearest frequency peer: englués (-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 « engrosser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enculeur
enculeur
10,328 corpus weight
- englués
englués
10,326 corpus weight
- engrosser
engrosser
10,325 corpus weight
- engueulait
engueulait
10,324 corpus weight
- enraye
enraye
10,323 corpus weight
- enrichissem…
enrichissements
10,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engrosser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engrosser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engrosser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engrosser is uncommon French at frequency #89,676 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for engrosser, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is engrosser, spelled E-N-G-R-O-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre une femme enceinte.
- 2Se compléter, s'enrichir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engrosser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà vous, par exemple, vous êtes là. Est-ce que vous vous êtes fait tout seul, et n’a-t-il pas fallu que votre père ait engrossé votre mère pour vous faire ?
Il lui faisait l’amour chaque soir. Ce n’était pas le verbe qu’elle employait dans sa tête, tant cette activité lui était devenue pénible : il n’était question que de l’engrosser, elle le savait bien.
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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