environnent
\ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn\
The verdict
“environnent” is uncommon French (frequency #72,304 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,304
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de environner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-environnent · environnent · French
environnent · rank #72,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,304
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enveloppante
Nearest frequency peer: enveloppante (-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 « environnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Enthoven
Enthoven
27,702 corpus weight
- entêter
entêter
27,699 corpus weight
- enveloppante
enveloppante
27,698 corpus weight
- environnent
environnent
27,697 corpus weight
- envolez
envolez
27,696 corpus weight
- escarres
escarres
27,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « environnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | environnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « environnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
environnent is uncommon French at frequency #72,304 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for environnent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 environnent, spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de environner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de environner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how environnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les calmes et les brises variables ne nous permirent qu’au bout de six jours de sortir du milieu de ce groupe d’îles et des innombrables récifs qui les environnent.
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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