enlacent
\ɑ̃.las\
The verdict
“enlacent” is uncommon French (frequency #85,697 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,697
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enlacer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enlacent · enlacent · French
enlacent · rank #85,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enlevons
Nearest frequency peer: enlevons (+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 « enlacent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endocrines
endocrines
14,307 corpus weight
- enferma
enferma
14,306 corpus weight
- enlacent
enlacent
14,304 corpus weight
- enlevons
enlevons
14,303 corpus weight
- ensuive
ensuive
14,301 corpus weight
- entamons
entamons
14,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enlacent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enlacent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.las\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enlacent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enlacent is uncommon French at frequency #85,697 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.las\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for enlacent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 enlacent, spelled E-N-L-A-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enlacer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de enlacer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enlacent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rapide, tous ces liens qui enlacent Roma, il l’en désempatouille.
J’ai vu, aux premiers jours du printemps, sous les berceaux de pampres qui s’enlacent aux figuiers de l’Adriatique, des matrones, drapées presque à la manière de l’ancienne Grèce, qui recueillaient avec soin dans des fioles ce qu’elles appelaient poétiquement les larmes de la vigne.
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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