attendre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#784
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
attendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un. Pronounced \a.tɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #784 in French word frequency. Often confused with attends and attendu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attendre is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #784 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for attendre, with forms such as "atendre", "atetndre", and "attednre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is attendre, spelled A-T-T-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.
- 2Différer une action jusqu’à une limite temporelle.
- 3Être prêt ou préparé pour une action.
- 4Souhaiter ou se préparer à la survenue d’un événement.
- 5Se dit de certaines choses qui menacent une personne ou qui lui sont destinées, réservées.
- 6Entendre, ouïr.
- 7Espérer, se promettre ou prévoir quelque chose.
- 8attendre sur quelqu’un : attendre quelqu’un.
- 9Prévoir quelque chose.
- 10S’imaginer quelque chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atendre,atetndre,attednre,attenddre,attender,attendrre,attenndre,attenrde,attnedre,tatendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attendre
Misspelling Variants of "attendre"
Frequency rank: #784 in French
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