engueulade
\ɑ̃.ɡœ.lad\
The verdict
“engueulade” is uncommon French (frequency #51,445 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,445
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’engueuler ou de s’engueuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engueulade · engueulade · French
engueulade · rank #51,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,445
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfumer
Nearest frequency peer: enfumer (-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 « engueulade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encerclement
encerclement
48,559 corpus weight
- endorme
endorme
48,558 corpus weight
- enfumer
enfumer
48,557 corpus weight
- engueulade
engueulade
48,556 corpus weight
- enjoignant
enjoignant
48,555 corpus weight
- enorgueillir
enorgueillir
48,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engueulade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engueulade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡœ.lad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engueulade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engueulade is uncommon French at frequency #51,445 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡœ.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’engueuler ou de s’engueuler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for engueulade in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is engueulade, spelled E-N-G-U-E-U-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’engueuler ou de s’engueuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engueulade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des engueulades qui rougissent les yeux, bleuissent les joues, crispent les poings, arrachent les cheveux, cassent les œufs, renversent les éventaires, dépoitraillent les matrones, et me remplissent d'une joie pure.
Jude venait d’accueillir une engueulade du capitaine Trugex, lorsque Simon l’aperçut par hasard, affalé sur le marchepied d’un camion, au fond d’un garage, et pleurant à gros sanglots.
Synonyms
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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