enjoliver
\ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve\
The verdict
“enjoliver” is uncommon French (frequency #79,282 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,282
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre joli, rendre plus joli, embellir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enjoliver · enjoliver · French
enjoliver · rank #79,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,282
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envoûter
Nearest frequency peer: envoûter (+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 « enjoliver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encyclopedia
encyclopedia
20,723 corpus weight
- enfila
enfila
20,722 corpus weight
- enjoliver
enjoliver
20,719 corpus weight
- envoûter
envoûter
20,718 corpus weight
- EPF
EPF
20,717 corpus weight
- equality
equality
20,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enjoliver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enjoliver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enjoliver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enjoliver is uncommon French at frequency #79,282 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʒɔ.li.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
enjoliver has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 enjoliver, spelled E-N-J-O-L-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre joli, rendre plus joli, embellir.
- 2Rendre joli, rendre plus joli, embellir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enjoliver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette garniture enjolive-t-elle suffisamment bien votre robe ?
Si à son âge elle croit s’enjoliver avec tous ses rubans, elle se trompe.
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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