enjoindre
\ɑ̃.ʒwɛ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“enjoindre” is uncommon French (frequency #70,601 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,601
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordonner expressément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enjoindre · enjoindre · French
enjoindre · rank #70,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,601
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engelures
Nearest frequency peer: engelures (-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 « enjoindre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfans
enfans
29,403 corpus weight
- enfilant
enfilant
29,402 corpus weight
- engelures
engelures
29,401 corpus weight
- enjoindre
enjoindre
29,400 corpus weight
- enrichissan…
enrichissantes
29,399 corpus weight
- entassées
entassées
29,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enjoindre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enjoindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʒwɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enjoindre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enjoindre is uncommon French at frequency #70,601 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒwɛ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ordonner expressément.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for enjoindre in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 enjoindre, spelled E-N-J-O-I-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ordonner expressément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enjoindre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Permettez-moi d’user de mon autorité de médecin, répondit Rébecca, pour vous enjoindre de garder le silence et d’éviter les réflexions émouvantes.
Il ne demande pas, il enjoint !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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