endette
\ɑ̃.dɛt\
The verdict
“endette” is an uncommon French word, ranked #80,173 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #80,173
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de endetter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “endette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for endette is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.dɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,173 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
endette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is endette, spelled E-N-D-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de endetter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de endetter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de endetter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de endetter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de endetter.
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 “endette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-D-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.dɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.