envoûter
\ɑ̃.vu.te\
The verdict
“envoûter” is uncommon French (frequency #79,283 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,283
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piquer, déchirer, brûler en effigie une personne en prononçant certaines paroles ou en faisant certaines cérémonies, dans la persuasion qu’elle souffrira les mêmes maux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envouter · envoûter · French
envoûter · rank #79,283 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,283
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enjoliver
Nearest frequency peer: enjoliver (-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 « envoûter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfila
enfila
20,722 corpus weight
- enjoliver
enjoliver
20,719 corpus weight
- envoûter
envoûter
20,718 corpus weight
- EPF
EPF
20,717 corpus weight
- equality
equality
20,716 corpus weight
- Erskine
Erskine
20,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « envoûter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envoûter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vu.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « envoûter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
envoûter is uncommon French at frequency #79,283 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.vu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for envoûter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is envoûter, spelled E-N-V-O-Û-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Piquer, déchirer, brûler en effigie une personne en prononçant certaines paroles ou en faisant certaines cérémonies, dans la persuasion qu’elle souffrira les mêmes maux.
- 2Charmer, séduire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how envoûter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Née en 1889, ma mère ne tarda pas à envoûter les reporters par sa beauté qui d'emblée faisait d'elle la reine des bals des débutantes. Elle avait de quoi les séduire, ainsi costumée en sultane, un petit fez rouge sur la tête, ou en duchesse emperruquée, toute de blanc vêtue […].
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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