attend
\a.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“attend” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,106
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de attendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attend · attend · French
attend · rank #1,106 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,106
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anti
Nearest frequency peer: anti (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « attend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- album
album
98,898 corpus weight
- ancienne
ancienne
98,897 corpus weight
- anti
anti
98,896 corpus weight
- attend
attend
98,895 corpus weight
- bah
bah
98,894 corpus weight
- cinéma
cinéma
98,893 corpus weight
What this shows « attend » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around attend (IPA \a.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,106 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de attendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for attend, with forms such as "atend", "atetnd", and "attedn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "attends", "attendu", "attente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is attend, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de attendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bout du compte, le lecteur attend encore, alléché par le titre, une économie, à peine évoquée, de l’attente, de l’impatience, du suicide et de l’ennui afin que soit, enfin, « débergsonisée » la durée.
D’un côté, Marion Daugeard, géographe spécialiste du Brésil, s’attend à un « resserrage de vis ». De l’autre, elle rappelle que « Lula et le Parti des travailleurs ont toujours été liés à l’agrobusiness. Plus encore lors de ces élections, pour lesquelles Lula a dû aller chercher des soutiens à droite de l’échiquier politique ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atend
- atetnd
- attedn
- attendd
- attennd
- attned
- tatend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attend - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).