engueulent
\ɑ̃.ɡœl\
The verdict
“engueulent” is uncommon French (frequency #62,971 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,971
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de engueuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-engueulent · engueulent · French
engueulent · rank #62,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,971
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engineer
Nearest frequency peer: engineer (-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 « engueulent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfantins
enfantins
37,033 corpus weight
- enfreignent
enfreignent
37,032 corpus weight
- engineer
engineer
37,031 corpus weight
- engueulent
engueulent
37,030 corpus weight
- entrelacés
entrelacés
37,029 corpus weight
- entrerai
entrerai
37,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « engueulent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engueulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « engueulent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
engueulent is uncommon French at frequency #62,971 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for engueulent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is engueulent, spelled E-N-G-U-E-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de engueuler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de engueuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engueulent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« J’ai des locaux au téléphone qui m’engueulent parce qu’ils ne peuvent jamais venir manger chez nous aux mois de juillet et d’août », regrette Zoé Gueydan, la gérante.
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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