ennuyer
\ɑ̃.nɥi.je\
The verdict
“ennuyer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,374
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causer de l’ennui, fatiguer l’esprit par quelque chose d’insignifiant, de monotone, de déplaisant, ou de trop long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ennuyer · ennuyer · French
ennuyer · rank #13,374 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,374
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfuit
Nearest frequency peer: enfuit (-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 « ennuyer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- empêchant
empêchant
86,630 corpus weight
- encadrer
encadrer
86,629 corpus weight
- enfuit
enfuit
86,628 corpus weight
- ennuyer
ennuyer
86,627 corpus weight
- espagnoles
espagnoles
86,626 corpus weight
- essayent
essayent
86,625 corpus weight
What this shows « ennuyer » 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 | ennuyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ennuyer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ennuyer (IPA \ɑ̃.nɥi.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,374 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ennuyer, with forms such as "ennueyr", "ennuyerr", and "ennuyre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "envoyer", "essuyer", "enrayer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ennuyer, spelled E-N-N-U-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Causer de l’ennui, fatiguer l’esprit par quelque chose d’insignifiant, de monotone, de déplaisant, ou de trop long.
- 2Causer du désarroi, contrarier quelqu’un.
- 3Éprouver de l’ennui, se morfondre, ne pas savoir s’occuper.
- 4Éprouver de la contrariété à cause d'une absence.
- 5Être ennuyé, avoir du souci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ennuyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous étions tous possédés d’une inquiétude lente qui nous faisait languir. Personne ne s’ennuyait, mais cette sensation poignante était cent fois pire que l’ennui. Il paraissait d’avance que cette nuit n’aurait pas de fin.
Je craignais que toutes mes lettres ne l’ennuyassent. Je faisais ce que je pouvais pour qu'elles ne fussent pas longues. J'y réussissais rarement; elle me plaignait; elle m'écrivait souvent, cela est vrai; je vivais de ses lettres.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ennueyr
- ennuyerr
- ennuyre
- ennuyyer
- ennyuer
- enunyer
- enuyer
- nenuyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ennuyer - 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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