ennuyé
\ɑ̃.nɥi.je\
The verdict
“ennuyé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,197
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a des ennuis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ennuye · ennuyé · French
ennuyé · rank #23,197 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,197
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endormis
Nearest frequency peer: endormis (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ennuyé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- EHPAD
EHPAD
76,807 corpus weight
- empruntent
empruntent
76,806 corpus weight
- endormis
endormis
76,805 corpus weight
- ennuyé
ennuyé
76,804 corpus weight
- envahie
envahie
76,803 corpus weight
- enverrai
enverrai
76,802 corpus weight
What this shows « ennuyé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ennuyé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ennuyé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ennuyé (IPA \ɑ̃.nɥi.je\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,197 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui a des ennuis.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ennuyé, with forms such as "ennuye", "ennuyyé", and "ennuéy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "envoyé", "essuyé", "ennuyer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ennuyé, spelled E-N-N-U-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a des ennuis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ennuyé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne serais pas seulement un ennuyé, mais je serais de plus un sot, si je ne pouvais pas réussir, même dans cet innocent projet. »
Il y a dans Paris un grand jardin fait pour les ennuyés : on y trouve une solitude relative, des arbres, des gazons verts, des plates-bandes fleuries, des allées sombres, et une foule d’oiseaux qui paraissent s’y plaire presque autant que dans un séjour champêtre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ennuye
- ennuyyé
- ennuéy
- ennyué
- enunyé
- enuyé
- nenuyé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ennuyé - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).