ennuient
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,146
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
ennuient is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ennuyer. Pronounced \ɑ̃.nɥi\. Often confused with ennuies and envient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ennuient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɥi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ennuient is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.nɥi\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,146 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ennuient, with forms such as "enniuent", "ennueint", and "ennuiennt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ennuies", "envient", "envoient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ennuient, spelled E-N-N-U-I-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ennuyer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ennuyer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enniuent,ennueint,ennuiennt,ennuientt,ennuietn,ennuinet,enuient,enunient,nenuient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ennuient
Misspelling Variants of "ennuient"
Frequency rank: #30,146 in French
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Nearby French words
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