ENS
\ø ɛ.n‿ɛs\
The verdict
“ENS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,871) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,871
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement français d’enseignement supérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ens · ENS · French
ENS · rank #15,871 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,871
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enchanté
Nearest frequency peer: enchanté (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ENS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- déplorable
déplorable
84,136 corpus weight
- edge
edge
84,133 corpus weight
- embuscade
embuscade
84,132 corpus weight
- enchanté
enchanté
84,131 corpus weight
- ENS
ENS
84,130 corpus weight
- envole
envole
84,128 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ENS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ENS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ø ɛ.n‿ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ENS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ENS is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "Eu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ø ɛ.n‿ɛs\. Frequency #15,871 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Établissement français d’enseignement supérieur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ENS, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "Eu", "ez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ENS, spelled E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Établissement français d’enseignement supérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ENS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors que la quasi-totalité des travailleurs est concernée par l’inflation et la stagnation des salaires, Benjamin Morel, docteur en sciences politiques à l’ENS, pointe l’inaction du gouvernement : « Le moyen classique pour inciter à l’augmentation des salaires, c’est de toucher au smic et au point d’indice des fonctionnaires. Sur ces deux sujets, l’exécu…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).