enjoignant
\ɑ̃.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“enjoignant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,446 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,446
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui enjoint ; qui tient de l’injonction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enjoignant · enjoignant · French
enjoignant · rank #51,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,446
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engueulade
Nearest frequency peer: engueulade (-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 « enjoignant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- enrager
enrager
48,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enjoignant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enjoignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enjoignant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enjoignant is uncommon French at frequency #51,446 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui enjoint ; qui tient de l’injonction.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enjoignant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enjoignant, spelled E-N-J-O-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui enjoint ; qui tient de l’injonction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enjoignant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et depuis le 28. d'Auril suiuant fut enuoyé audit lieu le Moine prescheur Cassian de Mosso aueç commandement à tous de l'escouter, au refus dequoi vn huissier du Conseil d'Estat arriua à Caraill le 8. de May auec lettres enjoignantes aux Syndiques dudit lieu d'enuoyer audit Conseil dans six jours le roole de tous ceux qui ne voudroyent ledit Prescheur, […].
En effet, les conclusions les plus enjoignantes du GIEC sont livrées avec un niveau de certitude estimé, dans un cadre de rationalité limitée : […].
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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