envoûtement
\ɑ̃.vut.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“envoûtement” is uncommon French (frequency #62,254 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,254
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’envoûter ou fait d’être envoûté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envoutement · envoûtement · French
envoûtement · rank #62,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,254
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entrecoupés
Nearest frequency peer: entrecoupés (-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 « envoûtement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entraînez
entraînez
37,750 corpus weight
- entrechoque…
entrechoquent
37,749 corpus weight
- entrecoupés
entrecoupés
37,748 corpus weight
- envoûtement
envoûtement
37,747 corpus weight
- erg
erg
37,746 corpus weight
- ers
ers
37,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « envoûtement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envoûtement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vut.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « envoûtement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
envoûtement is uncommon French at frequency #62,254 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.vut.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’envoûter ou fait d’être envoûté.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for envoûtement, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is envoûtement, spelled E-N-V-O-Û-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’envoûter ou fait d’être envoûté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how envoûtement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jadis le sorcier, le magicien, le jeteur de sort faisaient grand usage du crapaud.[…]. On l’employait aux conjurations et aux envoûtements.
C’est d’ailleurs moins le Moyen Âge lui-même qui plaît qu’une certaine ambiance conçue comme typiquement médiévale, combinant le poids des muscles, le choc des épées, la brûlure des dragons et l’envoûtement des sortilèges.
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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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