Which to use
“encourt” and “encourus” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #38,781
- “encourt” frequency rank
- #35,495
- “encourus” frequency rank
- 74276
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encourt | encourus |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de encourir. | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe encourir. |
Where the eye mixes encourt and encourus
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. encourt runs 7 letters (VCCVVCC) against encourus's 8 (VCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: encourt vs encourus
A purely visual mix-up. encourt (\ɑ̃.kuʁ\) and encourus (\ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74276, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
encourt is recorded at frequency rank #38,781, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.kuʁ\. encourus is at rank #35,495, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 74276, this pair ranks #37,645 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of encourt vs encourus
Shared letters: cenoru. Private to "encourt": t. Private to "encourus": s.
"encourt" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVCC · "encourus" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "encourt" and "encourus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "encourt" vs "encourus" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "encourt" and "encourus" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "encourt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "encourus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #37,645 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encourt" and "encourus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "encourir vs encourt". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #37,645 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.