attente
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,461
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
attente is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de la personne qui attend, ou temps pendant lequel on attend. Pronounced \a.tɑ̃t\. It ranks #2,461 in French word frequency. Often confused with atteste and atténue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attente is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,461 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for attente, with forms such as "atente", "atetnte", and "attenet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "atteste", "atténue", "attentes", 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 attente, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État de la personne qui attend, ou temps pendant lequel on attend.
- 2Espérance, opinion qu’on a conçue de quelqu’un, de quelque chose.
- 3Chose qu’on ne regarde que comme un commencement.
- 4Action de compter sur quelqu’un, sur quelque chose, une espérance, une prévision (répondre à l’attente de ses amis, contre toute attente).
- 5État recherché par un individu qui entretient ainsi un plaisir qui va cesser au moment où l’objet de l’attente sera réalisé.
- 6Standards, besoins, désirs des clients d’une entreprise, des usagers d’une administration, etc, ; ce qu’ils attendent ; ce à quoi ils s’attendent.
- 7Ellipse de armature d’attente.
- 8Pierre disposée en saillie d’un mur en attente de faire la liaison avec une future construction, elle constitue un arrachement.
- 9Insigne porté sur la couture de l’épaule de la veste.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atente,atetnte,attenet,attennte,attentte,attetne,attnete,tatente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attente
Misspelling Variants of "attente"
Frequency rank: #2,461 in French
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