eats
\ˈiːts\
The verdict
“eats” is uncommon French (frequency #66,699 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,699
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de eat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈiːts\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eats” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
eats is uncommon French at frequency #66,699 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈiːts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de eat.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for eats in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 eats, spelled E-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de eat.
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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Using “eats”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-A-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈiːts\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.