enroulant
\ɑ̃.ʁu.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“enroulant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,540 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,540
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de enrouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enroulant · enroulant · French
enroulant · rank #76,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,540
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ENM
Nearest frequency peer: ENM (-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 « enroulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endocrinolo…
endocrinologue
23,464 corpus weight
- endormais
endormais
23,463 corpus weight
- ENM
ENM
23,462 corpus weight
- enroulant
enroulant
23,461 corpus weight
- enroulées
enroulées
23,460 corpus weight
- enseignaient
enseignaient
23,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enroulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enroulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʁu.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enroulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enroulant is uncommon French at frequency #76,540 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʁu.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de enrouler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enroulant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enroulant, spelled E-N-R-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de enrouler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enroulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... ils ne flanchaient pas, malgré les rafales, la pluie et le tonnerre, malgré les vagues qui venaient les faire trébucher, se relevaient les uns les autres, continuaient à treuiller en enroulant la corde autour de l’arbre.
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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