enigma
\ə.ˈnɪɡ.mə\
The verdict
“enigma” is uncommon French (frequency #58,588 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,588
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Énigme, puzzle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enigma · enigma · French
enigma · rank #58,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,588
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enquêtant
Nearest frequency peer: enquêtant (+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 « enigma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encombrent
encombrent
41,417 corpus weight
- encouragera
encouragera
41,416 corpus weight
- enigma
enigma
41,413 corpus weight
- enquêtant
enquêtant
41,412 corpus weight
- enrobage
enrobage
41,411 corpus weight
- entacher
entacher
41,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enigma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enigma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ə.ˈnɪɡ.mə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enigma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enigma is uncommon French at frequency #58,588 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ə.ˈnɪɡ.mə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Énigme, puzzle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for enigma, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is enigma, spelled E-N-I-G-M-A.
Definition
- 1Énigme, puzzle.
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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