attendes
\a.tɑ̃d\
The verdict
“attendes” is uncommon French (frequency #95,562 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,562
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de attendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attendes · attendes · French
attendes · rank #95,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,562
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH astronef
Nearest frequency peer: astronef (-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 « attendes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assombrisse…
assombrissent
4,442 corpus weight
- assyriennes
assyriennes
4,441 corpus weight
- astronef
astronef
4,440 corpus weight
- attendes
attendes
4,439 corpus weight
- ATx
ATx
4,438 corpus weight
- Audoin
Audoin
4,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attendes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attendes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attendes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attendes is uncommon French at frequency #95,562 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de attendre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for attendes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is attendes, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de attendre.
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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