enlisement

\ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enlisement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for enlisement
PropertyValue
Headwordenlisement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#69,048
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « enlisement » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.enlisementtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « engineers » (#69,047), « Enna » (#69,049), « engageront » (#69,046). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enlisement » est au #69,048. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Action d’enliser ou état de ce qui est enlisé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enlisement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. — 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enlisement"?
"enlisement" is spelled E-N-L-I-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\.
What does "enlisement" mean?
As a noun, "enlisement" means: Action d’enliser ou état de ce qui est enlisé.
How do you pronounce "enlisement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enlisement" is \ɑ̃.liz.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enlisement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enlisement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list