enseignement

Name: enseignement, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“enseignement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,329
frequency rank, French: 3,255
“E” headwords: 18
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de transmettre des connaissances à un élève.

Corpus desk

Index FR-enseignement · enseignement · French

enseignement · rank #1,329 · 18 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #1,329
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-HIGH 18 variants
BOOK-MID 3,255
PHOTO-FINISH découvrir

Nearest frequency peer: découvrir (-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.

cru

98,675
dedans

98,674
découvrir

98,673
enseignement

98,672
Hollande

98,671
lendemain

98,669

What this shows « enseignement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

enseignement vs enseignent

83% similar

enseignement vs enseignements

92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for enseignement
Property	Value
Headword	enseignement
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#1,329
Misspellings tracked	18
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enseignement »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).enseignementse place ici:

#1,329

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « découvrir » (#1,328), « Hollande » (#1,330), « dedans » (#1,327). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enseignement » est au #1,329. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around enseignement (IPA \ɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,329 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for enseignement, with forms such as "enesignement", "ennseignement", and "enseginement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "enseignent", "enseignements", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enseignement, spelled E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Action de transmettre des connaissances à un élève.
2
Connaissance nouvelle ou savoir, qu’on retire d’une expérience.
3
Corps des maîtres chargés d’enseigner.
4
Savoir transmis.
5
Instructions, préceptes, leçons.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enseignement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Louis Pasteur alla d'abord à l’école primaire qui occupait une des salles-annexes du collège d'Arbois. L’enseignement mutuel était alors de mode. Les élèves étaient divisés par séries. Un camarade apprenait à lire aux autres qui épelaient ensuite à haute et assourdissante voix.
L’importance d’Hippocrate et du Corpus hippocratique ne saurait être surestimée car l’œuvre du Maître de Cos fut objet d’enseignement médical jusqu’au milieu du XIX^(ème) siècle avant de devenir objet d’histoire.

Synonyms

éducation instruction pédagogie

This word in other languages

teaching(English)enseñanza(Español)Unterricht(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

enesignement
ennseignement
enseginement
enseigenment
enseiggnement
enseigneemnt
enseignemennt
enseignementt
enseignemetn
enseignemment
enseignemnet
enseignmeent
enseignnement
enseingement
ensiegnement
ensseignement
esneignement
neseignement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enseignement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "enseignement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enseignement"?

"enseignement" is spelled E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\.

What does "enseignement" mean?

As a noun, "enseignement" means: Action de transmettre des connaissances à un élève.

What words are commonly confused with "enseignement"?

"enseignement" is commonly confused with "enseignent", "enseignements". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "enseignement"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enseignement" is \ɑ̃.sɛ.ɲə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "enseignement" come from?

"enseignement" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enseignement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

certainement18 variants environnement18 variants département18 variants propriétaire18 variants