énormités
\e.nɔʁ.mi.te\
The verdict
“énormités” is uncommon French (frequency #59,740 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,740
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de énormité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enormites · énormités · French
énormités · rank #59,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,740
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épaississement
Nearest frequency peer: épaississement (+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 « énormités »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éducations
éducations
40,264 corpus weight
- édulcorée
édulcorée
40,263 corpus weight
- énormités
énormités
40,261 corpus weight
- épaississem…
épaississement
40,260 corpus weight
- éprend
éprend
40,259 corpus weight
- étoffée
étoffée
40,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « énormités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | énormités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.nɔʁ.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « énormités » en français
Rare enough to double-check
énormités is uncommon French at frequency #59,740 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.nɔʁ.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de énormité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for énormités, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is énormités, spelled É-N-O-R-M-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de énormité.
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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