enquérir
\ɑ̃.ke.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“enquérir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,018
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’informer ; faire des recherches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enquerir · enquérir · French
enquérir · rank #45,018 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,018
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engloutis
Nearest frequency peer: engloutis (-2 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 « enquérir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- empiète
empiète
54,988 corpus weight
- encyclopédi…
encyclopédies
54,987 corpus weight
- endurci
endurci
54,986 corpus weight
- engloutis
engloutis
54,985 corpus weight
- enquérir
enquérir
54,983 corpus weight
- escortes
escortes
54,980 corpus weight
What this shows « enquérir » 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 | enquérir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ke.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enquérir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around enquérir (IPA \ɑ̃.ke.ʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,018 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for enquérir, with forms such as "ennquérir", "enqquérir", and "enquerir". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "enquêter", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is enquérir, spelled E-N-Q-U-É-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1S’informer ; faire des recherches.
- 2Interroger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enquérir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai besoin de personne pour pleurer mes fils avec moi. Adieu, ne vous enquérez plus de moi. Mon sort à venir n’appartient plus qu’à moi et à Dieu.
Sa première idée fut de s'enquérir au premier passant du logis du maréchal d'Ancre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ennquérir
- enqquérir
- enquerir
- enquréir
- enquéirr
- enquérirr
- enquérri
- enquérrir
- enqéurir
- enuqérir
- eqnuérir
- nequérir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enquérir - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enquérir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).