attendre

\a.tɑ̃dʁ\

/\a.tɑ̃dʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“attendre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#784
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attendre · attendre · French

attendre · rank #784 · 10 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #784
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Afrique

Nearest frequency peer: Afrique (-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 « attendre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « attendre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

attendre vs attends
75% similar
attendre vs attendu
75% similar
attendre vs attente
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for attendre
PropertyValue
Headwordattendre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.tɑ̃dʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#784
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attendre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).attendrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Afrique » (#783), « bras » (#785), « acheter » (#782). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attendre » est au #784. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around attendre (IPA \a.tɑ̃dʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #784 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attendre, with forms such as "atendre", "atetndre", and "attednre". 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 18 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is attendre, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Différer une action jusqu’à une limite temporelle.
  3. 3
    Être prêt ou préparé pour une action.
  4. 4
    Souhaiter ou se préparer à la survenue d’un événement.
  5. 5
    Se dit de certaines choses qui menacent une personne ou qui lui sont destinées, réservées.
  6. 6
    Entendre, ouïr.
  7. 7
    Espérer, se promettre ou prévoir quelque chose.
  8. 8
    attendre sur quelqu’un : attendre quelqu’un.
  9. 9
    Prévoir quelque chose.
  10. 10
    S’imaginer quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how attendre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y avait là, juste en face, une boutique de modeste apparence qui pouvait bien être celle d'une crèmerie. La porte vitrée était ouverte et une femme en tablier blanc se tenait sur le seuil, attendant la pratique.
  2. S’embusquant alors derrière un massif, le fusil au poing, il attendait, des heures et des heures, qu’un chat vînt à passer.

Synonyms

patienter

Antonyms

agirpartir

This word in other languages

wait for(English)esperar(Español)harren(Deutsch)esperar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atendre
  • atetndre
  • attednre
  • attenddre
  • attender
  • attendrre
  • attenndre
  • attenrde
  • attnedre
  • tatendre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attendre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

atendre1atetndre2attednre2attenddre1attender2attendrre1attenndre1attenrde2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attendre"?
"attendre" is spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tɑ̃dʁ\.
What does "attendre" mean?
As a verb, "attendre" means: Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.
What words are commonly confused with "attendre"?
"attendre" is commonly confused with "attends", "attendu", "attente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attendre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attendre" is \a.tɑ̃dʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attendre" come from?
"attendre" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attendre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

regarder#776pratique#796victoire#798dimanche#768

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

acheter10 variantsdépart10 variantsréalité10 variantsentendu10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list