atteindre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,553
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
atteindre is aFrenchverb. It means: Toucher de loin au moyen d’un projectile. Pronounced \a.tɛ̃dʁ\. It ranks #1,553 in French word frequency. Often confused with attende and attendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atteindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for atteindre is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tɛ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,553 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for atteindre, with forms such as "ateindre", "atetindre", and "atteidnre". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "attende", "attendre", "atteinte", 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 atteindre, spelled A-T-T-E-I-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toucher de loin au moyen d’un projectile.
- 2Parvenir à un terme, à quelque chose dont on était plus ou moins éloigné, en parlant des choses aussi bien que des personnes.
- 3Parvenir à son but, en causant un dommage physique ou moral, en parlant de choses.
- 4Attraper en chemin, joindre quelqu’un qu’on suit ou qu’on poursuit.
- 5Joindre un but ou une étape de la vie.
- 6Égaler.
- 7Toucher (à une chose qui est à une distance assez éloignée pour qu’on ne puisse pas y arriver sans quelque effort).
- 8(Suivi de la préposition à puis d'un nom) Toucher à la limite, débouchant sur un état extrême, très élevé ou difficilement accessible.
- 9(Suivi de la préposition à puis d'un verbe)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ateindre,atetindre,atteidnre,atteinddre,atteinder,atteindrre,atteinndre,atteinrde,attenidre,attiendre,tateindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for atteindre
Misspelling Variants of "atteindre"
Frequency rank: #1,553 in French
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Nearby French words
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