enracinement

\ɑ̃.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“enracinement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,282. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,282
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’enraciner ou de s’enraciner ; résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-enracinement · enracinement · French

enracinement · rank #39,282 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #39,282
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH enjoué

Nearest frequency peer: enjoué (-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 « enracinement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « enracinement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

enracinement vs entraînement
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for enracinement
PropertyValue
Headwordenracinement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#39,282
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enracinement »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).enracinementse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « enjoué » (#39,281), « entachée » (#39,283), « emo » (#39,280). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enracinement » est au #39,282. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around enracinement (IPA \ɑ̃.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,282 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for enracinement, with forms such as "enarcinement", "ennracinement", and "enraccinement". 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, "entraînement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is enracinement, spelled E-N-R-A-C-I-N-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’enraciner ou de s’enraciner ; résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Action d’implanter ou de s’implanter, s’installer durablement ; résultat de cette action.
  3. 3
    Attachement à une origine, racines.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enracinement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La capacité d'enracinement in vitro de microboutures du porte-greffe de pommier M9 (Jork 9) a été notablement augmentée en fendant la partie basale (2 mm).
  2. Pourtant, la connaissance de l’histoire du crime organisé permet de dégager deux lois toujours vérifiées et souvent ignorées : 1) le crime organisé — surtout de type mafieux —, en raison de sa nature clandestine, est toujours perçu avec retard ; 2) plus cette perception est tardive et plus son enracinement le rend difficile à neutraliser.

Synonyms

développementimplantationinstallationracinement

Antonyms

déracinement

This word in other languages

rooting(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • enarcinement
  • ennracinement
  • enraccinement
  • enracienment
  • enracineemnt
  • enracinemennt
  • enracinementt
  • enracinemetn
  • enracinemment
  • enracinemnet
  • enracinmeent
  • enracinnement
  • enracniement
  • enraicnement
  • enrcainement
  • enrracinement
  • ernacinement
  • neracinement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enracinement - 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.

enarcinement2ennracinement1enraccinement1enracienment2enracineemnt2enracinemennt1enracinementt1enracinemetn2
Edit distance from "enracinement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enracinement"?
"enracinement" is spelled E-N-R-A-C-I-N-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\.
What does "enracinement" mean?
As a noun, "enracinement" means: Action d’enraciner ou de s’enraciner ; résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "enracinement"?
"enracinement" is commonly confused with "entraînement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "enracinement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enracinement" is \ɑ̃.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enracinement" come from?
"enracinement" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enracinement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

désillusions#39,275déficitaires#39,266focalisation#39,302gouttelettes#39,323

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

grammaticales18 variantsmicrobiologie18 variantsmétaphorique18 variantsobstinément18 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list