attendez
\a.tɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“attendez” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,207
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de attendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attendez · attendez · French
attendez · rank #4,207 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,207
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annuelle
Nearest frequency peer: annuelle (-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 « attendez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- amène
amène
95,797 corpus weight
- Android
Android
95,796 corpus weight
- annuelle
annuelle
95,795 corpus weight
- attendez
attendez
95,794 corpus weight
- attentats
attentats
95,793 corpus weight
- baie
baie
95,792 corpus weight
What this shows « attendez » 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 | attendez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attendez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around attendez (IPA \a.tɑ̃.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,207 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attendez, with forms such as "atendez", "atetndez", and "attednez". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "attends", "attendu", "attente", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is attendez, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de attendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de attendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attendez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous ne vous sentez pas encore prêt, attendez avant de faire des choix.
Attendez-vous à des compliments. Vous les méritez pleinement et vous avez encore plein d’autres projets à réaliser !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atendez
- atetndez
- attednez
- attenddez
- attendezz
- attendze
- attenedz
- attenndez
- attnedez
- tatendez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attendez - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attendez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).