endroit

/\ɑ̃.dʁwa\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#962

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

endroit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie déterminée d’un espace. Pronounced \ɑ̃.dʁwa\. It ranks #962 in French word frequency. Often confused with étroit and enduit.

Key facts for endroit
PropertyValue
Headwordendroit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.dʁwa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#962
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of endroit in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for endroit is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.dʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #962 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for endroit, with forms such as "ednroit", "enddroit", and "endorit". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "étroit", "enduit", "entrait", 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 endroit, spelled E-N-D-R-O-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie déterminée d’un espace.
  2. 2
    Lieu dont il s’agit ou dont on parle.
  3. 3
    Toute place ou de toute partie déterminée d’une chose quelconque.
  4. 4
    Partie d’un discours, d’un poème, d’un ouvrage d’esprit.
  5. 5
    Partie, côté d’un objet à deux faces qu’on devrait regarder en premier.
  6. 6
    Adret.
  7. 7
    Toilettes, WC, petit endroit.
  8. 8
    Le lieu où on l’on réside habituellement.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ednroit,enddroit,endorit,endriot,endroitt,endroti,endrroit,enndroit,enrdoit,nedroit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for endroit

Misspelling Variants of "endroit"

ednroit7enddroit8endorit7endriot7endroitt8endroti7endrroit8enndroit8
Misspelling Variants of "endroit"

Frequency rank: #962 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "endroit"?
"endroit" is spelled E-N-D-R-O-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.dʁwa\.
What does "endroit" mean?
As a noun, "endroit" means: Partie déterminée d’un espace.
What words are commonly confused with "endroit"?
"endroit" is commonly confused with "étroit", "enduit", "entrait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "endroit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "endroit" is \ɑ̃.dʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "endroit" come from?
"endroit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.