enne
\ɛn\
The verdict
“enne” is uncommon French (frequency #84,763 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,763
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre N, n.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enne · enne · French
enne · rank #84,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,763
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enserrant
Nearest frequency peer: enserrant (+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 « enne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endoctriner
endoctriner
15,242 corpus weight
- endymion
endymion
15,241 corpus weight
- enne
enne
15,238 corpus weight
- enserrant
enserrant
15,237 corpus weight
- entrefaites
entrefaites
15,236 corpus weight
- entremetteu…
entremetteuse
15,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enne is uncommon French at frequency #84,763 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lettre N, n.".
enne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enne, spelled E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Lettre N, n.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Н̄ est composée d'un enne avec un macron.
On a coutume aujourd'hui de donner le genre masculin au nom des lettres. Un A, un B, un L, un X, etc. Il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi. Certaines lettres, dont le nom commence par une voyelle, étaient des substantifs féminins. On peut dire encore le féminin pour F, L, M, N, R, S, H (prononcer une effe, une elle, une emme, une enne, une erre, une esse, une…
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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