enraciner
\ɑ̃.ʁa.si.ne\
The verdict
“enraciner” is uncommon French (frequency #57,921 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,921
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fixer au sol par les racines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enraciner · enraciner · French
enraciner · rank #57,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,921
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Enoch
Nearest frequency peer: Enoch (-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 « enraciner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encense
encense
42,084 corpus weight
- engageaient
engageaient
42,083 corpus weight
- Enid
Enid
42,082 corpus weight
- Enoch
Enoch
42,081 corpus weight
- enraciner
enraciner
42,080 corpus weight
- entablement
entablement
42,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enraciner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enraciner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʁa.si.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enraciner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enraciner is uncommon French at frequency #57,921 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʁa.si.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enraciner, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 enraciner, spelled E-N-R-A-C-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fixer au sol par les racines.
- 2Fixer dans l’esprit ou dans le cœur.
- 3Fixer des origines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enraciner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant que j'ai exposé le procédé de M. Mathieu, je dois ajouter de suite que son expérience lui a appris que toutes les bruyères ne s'enracinent pas avec la même promptitude, et que, s'il y en a qui se trouvent bien enracinées après deux mois de couchage, il en est d'autres auxquelles il faut quatre, cinq ou six mois, et encore davantage.
Si ses vues se tournent vers les porte-greffe greffés, il lui faudra une année, pour enraciner les boutures, une autre pour greffer ces enracinés; […].
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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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