enrayée
\ɑ̃.ʁɛ.je\
The verdict
“enrayée” is uncommon French (frequency #68,252 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,252
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de enrayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enrayee · enrayée · French
enrayée · rank #68,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,252
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enroulés
Nearest frequency peer: enroulés (+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 « enrayée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfermez
enfermez
31,752 corpus weight
- engueulades
engueulades
31,751 corpus weight
- enrayée
enrayée
31,749 corpus weight
- enroulés
enroulés
31,748 corpus weight
- enrôle
enrôle
31,747 corpus weight
- enserre
enserre
31,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enrayée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enrayée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʁɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enrayée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enrayée is uncommon French at frequency #68,252 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʁɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de enrayer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for enrayée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enrayée, spelled E-N-R-A-Y-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de enrayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enrayée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On constate également que la chute de la population de moineaux semble enrayée, d’après Frédéric Malher, délégué régional de la Ligue de protection des oiseaux en Île-de-France.
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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