attentat

\a.tɑ̃.ta\

/\a.tɑ̃.ta\/ noun

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The verdict

“attentat” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,438
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise criminelle contre les personnes ou les choses.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attentat · attentat · French

attentat · rank #3,438 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,438
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Barcelone

Nearest frequency peer: Barcelone (+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 « attentat »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « attentat » 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).

attentat vs attente
75% similar
attentat vs attentes
75% similar
attentat vs attentif
75% similar

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

Key facts for attentat
PropertyValue
Headwordattentat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.tɑ̃.ta\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,438
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attentat »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).attentatse 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 « Barcelone » (#3,439), « assistance » (#3,436), « Bombe » (#3,440). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attentat » est au #3,438. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around attentat (IPA \a.tɑ̃.ta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,438 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attentat, with forms such as "atentat", "atetntat", and "attenatt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "attente", "attentes", "attentif", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 attentat, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-A-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Entreprise criminelle contre les personnes ou les choses.
  2. 2
    Acte qui s’oppose à des droits inscrits dans la loi ou à des principes généralement admis.
  3. 3
    (Par analogie) Acte qui heurte les conventions artistiques, morales, le bon sens, les traditions.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dorénavant, conclut Gilles Malandain, «écrasé par le poids de l’horreur terroriste, l’attentat, après avoir longtemps servi de terme générique, équivalent savant de crime, et susceptible de modulations très diverses, en est venu à désigner spécifiquement une forme de violence très répulsive et injustifiable».
  2. Il en est de même des victimes des attentats et des exactions qui ont marqué la période qui a suivi les accords d’Évian le 18 mars jusqu’à la déclaration d’indépendance de l’Algérie le 5 juillet, et parfois au-delà.

This word in other languages

attack(English)atentado(Español)Anschlag(Deutsch)atentado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atentat
  • atetntat
  • attenatt
  • attenntat
  • attentatt
  • attentta
  • attenttat
  • attetnat
  • attnetat
  • tatentat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attentat - 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.

atentat1atetntat2attenatt2attenntat1attentatt1attentta2attenttat1attetnat2
Edit distance from "attentat"

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 "attentat"?
"attentat" is spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tɑ̃.ta\.
What does "attentat" mean?
As a noun, "attentat" means: Entreprise criminelle contre les personnes ou les choses.
What words are commonly confused with "attentat"?
"attentat" is commonly confused with "attente", "attentes", "attentif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attentat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attentat" is \a.tɑ̃.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attentat" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

capables#3,443villages#3,426réfugiés#3,421préciser#3,419

Similar misspelling depth

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

voulons10 variantsfacteur10 variantsitalienne10 variantslimiter10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list