édenté
\e.dɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“édenté” is uncommon French (frequency #89,326 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,326
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépourvu de dents ; qui les a perdues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edente · édenté · French
édenté · rank #89,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,326
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écartons
Nearest frequency peer: écartons (-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 « édenté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zygomatiques
zygomatiques
10,678 corpus weight
- écartons
écartons
10,676 corpus weight
- édenté
édenté
10,675 corpus weight
- éhontés
éhontés
10,674 corpus weight
- élargisseme…
élargissements
10,673 corpus weight
- éliront
éliront
10,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « édenté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | édenté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.dɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « édenté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
édenté is uncommon French at frequency #89,326 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.dɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for édenté, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 édenté, spelled É-D-E-N-T-É.
Definition
- 1Dépourvu de dents ; qui les a perdues.
- 2Dépourvu de mordant, d’initiative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how édenté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Une bonne servante vaut tous les maudits batchas de la terre. Je me souviens que, au temps où notre peuple fut affranchi, des maîtres ont marié leurs fils à des esclaves édentées pour les retenir dans leur maison.
Le père jurait, s’arrêtait, repartait en serrant ses lèvres entre ses mâchoires édentées.
Synonyms
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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