Ennis
The verdict
“Ennis” is uncommon French (frequency #53,319 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,319
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef-lieu du comté de Clare, dans la province de Munster, en Irlande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ennis · Ennis · French
Ennis · rank #53,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,319
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enneigement
Nearest frequency peer: enneigement (-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 « Ennis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- entomologis…
entomologiste
46,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ennis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ennis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ennis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ennis is uncommon French at frequency #53,319 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chef-lieu du comté de Clare, dans la province de Munster, en Irlande.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ennis, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Ennis, spelled E-N-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Chef-lieu du comté de Clare, dans la province de Munster, en Irlande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ennis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le petit cimetière de Montmartre, au versant de la colline, elle repose, la face tournée vers le nord, vers l’Angleterre qu’elle ne voulut jamais revoir. Sa modeste tombe porte cette inscription : « Henriette-Constance Berlioz-Smithson, née à Ennis, en Irlande, morte à Montmartre le 3 mars 1854. »
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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