ensemencement
\ɑ̃s.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ensemencement” is uncommon French (frequency #63,721 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,721
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’ensemencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ensemencement · ensemencement · French
ensemencement · rank #63,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,721
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enjambant
Nearest frequency peer: enjambant (-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 « ensemencement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endormies
endormies
36,283 corpus weight
- engraisse
engraisse
36,282 corpus weight
- enjambant
enjambant
36,281 corpus weight
- ensemenceme…
ensemencement
36,280 corpus weight
- ensevelir
ensevelir
36,279 corpus weight
- entendrais
entendrais
36,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ensemencement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensemencement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃s.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #63,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ensemencement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ensemencement is uncommon French at frequency #63,721 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃s.mɑ̃s.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ensemencement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ensemencement, spelled E-N-S-E-M-E-N-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’ensemencer.
- 2Action d’ensemencer, en particulier pour les nuages
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ensemencement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se sert de la charrue trisoc […] pour opérer le déchaumage, détacher les racines et détruire les mauvaises herbes, avant de procéder aux labours destinés à préparer les ensemencements.
Dans la première année, c'est-à-dire immédiatement après l’endiguement, on a l'habitude d’ensemencer le polder en orge. C'est l’ensemencement qui réussit le mieux dans la terre imparfaitement desséchée et dessalée.
This word in other languages
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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