enneigement
\ɑ̃.nɛʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“enneigement” is uncommon French (frequency #53,318 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,318
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couverture du sol par la neige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enneigement · enneigement · French
enneigement · rank #53,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,318
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH englobent
Nearest frequency peer: englobent (-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 « enneigement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endurcis
endurcis
46,687 corpus weight
- englobent
englobent
46,684 corpus weight
- enneigement
enneigement
46,683 corpus weight
- Ennis
Ennis
46,682 corpus weight
- enseignera
enseignera
46,681 corpus weight
- entendras
entendras
46,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enneigement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enneigement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɛʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enneigement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enneigement is uncommon French at frequency #53,318 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.nɛʒ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for enneigement, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is enneigement, spelled E-N-N-E-I-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Couverture du sol par la neige.
- 2Action d'enneiger ; résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enneigement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déjà Luxeuil plus privilégié subit un enneigement très faible. En 1926-1927, la neige disparut dans les huit jours qui suivirent la chute, celle-ci de courte durée ; […].
Le climat arctique n'est pas le même que le climat alpin malgré certaines analogies qui sont indiscutables (enneigement, courte période de végétation, température moyenne basse).
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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