attendis
\a.tɑ̃.di\
The verdict
“attendis” is uncommon French (frequency #86,436 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,436
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de attendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attendis · attendis · French
attendis · rank #86,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,436
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atavisme
Nearest frequency peer: atavisme (-2 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 « attendis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aspirantes
aspirantes
13,569 corpus weight
- ASSR
ASSR
13,568 corpus weight
- atavisme
atavisme
13,567 corpus weight
- attendis
attendis
13,565 corpus weight
- Auriac
Auriac
13,563 corpus weight
- avaliser
avaliser
13,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attendis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attendis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attendis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attendis is uncommon French at frequency #86,436 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tɑ̃.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
attendis has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is attendis, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de attendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de attendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attendis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’attendis que le couple se lève puis je redemandai deux coupes au bar avant de venir m’affaler sur une chaise, près d’Estelle.
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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