ensuive
\ɑ̃.sɥiv\
The verdict
“ensuive” is uncommon French (frequency #85,700 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,700
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ensuivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ensuive · ensuive · French
ensuive · rank #85,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,700
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entamons
Nearest frequency peer: entamons (+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 « ensuive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enferma
enferma
14,306 corpus weight
- enlacent
enlacent
14,304 corpus weight
- enlevons
enlevons
14,303 corpus weight
- ensuive
ensuive
14,301 corpus weight
- entamons
entamons
14,300 corpus weight
- entretienne
entretienne
14,299 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ensuive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensuive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɥiv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ensuive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ensuive is uncommon French at frequency #85,700 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.sɥiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ensuivre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ensuive, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ensuive, spelled E-N-S-U-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ensuivre.
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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