envoyer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,162
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
envoyer is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire partir quelqu’un ou faire porter quelque chose quelque part. Pronounced \ɑ̃.vwa.je\. It ranks #1,162 in French word frequency. Often confused with envoyés and envoyez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vwa.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for envoyer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.vwa.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,162 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for envoyer, with forms such as "ennvoyer", "enovyer", and "envoeyr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "envoyés", "envoyez", "envoyé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is envoyer, spelled E-N-V-O-Y-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire partir quelqu’un ou faire porter quelque chose quelque part.
- 2Aller faire prendre des nouvelles de quelqu’un.
- 3Nommer pour une assemblée.
- 4Dispenser des bienfaits ou des méfaits aux humains, en parlant du destin, de la providence, des déités, etc.
- 5Pousser, jeter, lancer hors de soi en parlant surtout des choses.
- 6Projeter avec force.
- 7Ouvrir une partie par un premier tir.
- 8Amener vivement.
- 9Boire ; manger.
- 10Posséder sexuellement.
- 11Renvoyer, mettre dehors.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ennvoyer,enovyer,envoeyr,envoyerr,envoyre,envoyyer,envvoyer,envyoer,evnoyer,nevoyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for envoyer
Misspelling Variants of "envoyer"
Frequency rank: #1,162 in French
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