enluminures
\ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\
The verdict
“enluminures” is uncommon French (frequency #65,918 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,918
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de enluminure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enluminures · enluminures · French
enluminures · rank #65,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,918
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enorgueillit
Nearest frequency peer: enorgueillit (+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 « enluminures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empêcheraie…
empêcheraient
34,086 corpus weight
- enchérir
enchérir
34,085 corpus weight
- enluminures
enluminures
34,083 corpus weight
- enorgueillit
enorgueillit
34,082 corpus weight
- enracinés
enracinés
34,081 corpus weight
- enregistrons
enregistrons
34,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enluminures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enluminures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enluminures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enluminures is uncommon French at frequency #65,918 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de enluminure.".
Zero misspellings are on record for enluminures in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 enluminures, spelled E-N-L-U-M-I-N-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de enluminure.
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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