énigme
\e.niɡm\
The verdict
“énigme” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,087
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu d’esprit mettant à l’épreuve la réflexion de l’interlocuteur qui doit répondre à une interrogation dont le sens est caché sous une parabole ou une métaphore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enigme · énigme · French
énigme · rank #12,087 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,087
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Émile
Nearest frequency peer: Émile (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « énigme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vecteur
vecteur
87,917 corpus weight
- vertical
vertical
87,916 corpus weight
- Émile
Émile
87,915 corpus weight
- énigme
énigme
87,914 corpus weight
- épices
épices
87,913 corpus weight
- absorption
absorption
87,911 corpus weight
What this shows « énigme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | énigme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.niɡm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « énigme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around énigme (IPA \e.niɡm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,087 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for énigme, with forms such as "enigme", "néigme", and "éingme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "exige", "érige", "entame", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is énigme, spelled É-N-I-G-M-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu d’esprit mettant à l’épreuve la réflexion de l’interlocuteur qui doit répondre à une interrogation dont le sens est caché sous une parabole ou une métaphore.
- 2Toute chose difficile à comprendre, à expliquer, à connaître.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how énigme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Œdipe résolut l’énigme du Sphinx, libérant Thèbes de ce monstre qui dévorait les passants. — Proposer une énigme. — Recueil d’énigmes.
Ce sera toujours une vivante énigme que chacun interprète au gré de ses désirs, de ses espérances ou de son système.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enigme
- néigme
- éingme
- éngime
- énigem
- éniggme
- énigmme
- énimge
- énnigme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of énigme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).