enlisement
\ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“enlisement” is uncommon French (frequency #69,048 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,048
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’enliser ou état de ce qui est enlisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enlisement · enlisement · French
enlisement · rank #69,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,048
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engineers
Nearest frequency peer: engineers (-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 « enlisement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfonça
enfonça
30,957 corpus weight
- enfumé
enfumé
30,956 corpus weight
- engageront
engageront
30,955 corpus weight
- engineers
engineers
30,954 corpus weight
- enlisement
enlisement
30,953 corpus weight
- Enna
Enna
30,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enlisement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enlisement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enlisement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enlisement is uncommon French at frequency #69,048 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’enliser ou état de ce qui est enlisé.".
enlisement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is enlisement, spelled E-N-L-I-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’enliser ou état de ce qui est enlisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enlisement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fondrières se multipliaient devant lui sous trois formes, la fondrière d’eau, la fondrière de neige, la fondrière de sable. La dernière est la plus redoutable. C’est l’enlisement.
— L’enlisement militaire sur le terrain ayant entraîné un mécontentement croissant, l'idée se développe d'une « troisième force », d'une « troisième voie » consistant en une « yéménisation » du problème, en un retour au dialogue direct entre les Yéménites.
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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