enluminure
\ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\
The verdict
“enluminure” is uncommon French (frequency #65,127 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,127
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art d’enluminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enluminure · enluminure · French
enluminure · rank #65,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,127
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engraissement
Nearest frequency peer: engraissement (-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 « enluminure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfances
enfances
34,877 corpus weight
- engagèrent
engagèrent
34,876 corpus weight
- engraisseme…
engraissement
34,875 corpus weight
- enluminure
enluminure
34,874 corpus weight
- ensanglantés
ensanglantés
34,873 corpus weight
- entonner
entonner
34,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enluminure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enluminure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enluminure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enluminure is uncommon French at frequency #65,127 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for enluminure in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is enluminure, spelled E-N-L-U-M-I-N-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Art d’enluminer.
- 2Ornements en couleur, tels que fleurons, vignettes, lettres ornées, sujets à personnages, qui décorent les manuscrits du Moyen Âge.
- 3Action d’enluminer ; ou résultat de cette action.
- 4Style trop chargé de couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enluminure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enluminure du XVᵉ siècle.
… du docteur Huylten, qui ne détachait les yeux de sa bible jonchée de gothiques enluminures que pour admirer l'or et le pourpre de deux poissons captifs aux humides flancs d'un bocal.
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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