enrochement
\ɑ̃.ʁɔʃ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“enrochement” is uncommon French (frequency #94,768 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,768
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entassement de roches jetées au fond de l’eau ou dans un terrain mouvant pour servir de fondations et empêcher les affouillements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enrochement · enrochement · French
enrochement · rank #94,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,768
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enrhumer
Nearest frequency peer: enrhumer (-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 « enrochement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- engueulée
engueulée
5,236 corpus weight
- enjoués
enjoués
5,235 corpus weight
- enrhumer
enrhumer
5,234 corpus weight
- enrochement
enrochement
5,233 corpus weight
- ensablement
ensablement
5,232 corpus weight
- ensorceler
ensorceler
5,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enrochement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enrochement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʁɔʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enrochement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enrochement is uncommon French at frequency #94,768 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʁɔʃ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Entassement de roches jetées au fond de l’eau ou dans un terrain mouvant pour servir de fondations et empêcher les affouillements.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for enrochement in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is enrochement, spelled E-N-R-O-C-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Entassement de roches jetées au fond de l’eau ou dans un terrain mouvant pour servir de fondations et empêcher les affouillements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enrochement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au terme d'un ancien chemin usé jusqu'à l’enrochement […], le hameau des vieux marais dérobe sa dizaine de masures à ras du sol, à l’orée de la Fagne.
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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