enseigne
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,754
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
enseigne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signal, marque, tableau, figure, indication qu’un commerçant, un artisan, un aubergiste, etc., met à son magasin, à son atelier, à son établissement pour se promouvoir. Pronounced \ɑ̃.sɛɲ\. It ranks #3,754 in French word frequency. Often confused with enseigner and enseignes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enseigne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enseigne is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.sɛɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,754 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for enseigne, with forms such as "enesigne", "ennseigne", and "ensegine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "enseigner", "enseignes", "enseignée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enseigne, spelled E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signal, marque, tableau, figure, indication qu’un commerçant, un artisan, un aubergiste, etc., met à son magasin, à son atelier, à son établissement pour se promouvoir.
- 2Raison sociale, nom de marque d’un commerce, d’un magasin ou d’un point-de-vente, logo.
- 3Chaîne de magasins correspondant à une enseigne.
- 4Drapeau ou signe accoutumé de ralliement.
- 5Dans l’ancienne infanterie française, la charge de celui qui portait le drapeau.
- 6Symbole d’une série dans les cartes à jouer.
- 7Informations, renseignements.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enesigne,ennseigne,ensegine,enseigen,enseiggne,enseignne,enseinge,ensiegne,ensseigne,esneigne,neseigne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enseigne
Misspelling Variants of "enseigne"
Frequency rank: #3,754 in French
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