attenter
\a.tɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“attenter” is uncommon French (frequency #61,317 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,317
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commettre un attentat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attenter · attenter · French
attenter · rank #61,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,317
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attrition
Nearest frequency peer: attrition (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « attenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aspirée
aspirée
38,687 corpus weight
- asticot
asticot
38,686 corpus weight
- attenter
attenter
38,684 corpus weight
- attrition
attrition
38,683 corpus weight
- autonomiste
autonomiste
38,682 corpus weight
- Auvers
Auvers
38,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attenter is uncommon French at frequency #61,317 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commettre un attentat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for attenter in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is attenter, spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Commettre un attentat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Attenter à la vie de quelqu’un.
Attenter à la pudeur, à l’honneur d’une femme.
This word in other languages
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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