entailler
\ɑ̃.tɑ.je\
The verdict
“entailler” is uncommon French (frequency #82,923 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,923
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couper, en y pratiquant une entaille, une pierre, une pièce de bois, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entailler · entailler · French
entailler · rank #82,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,923
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ennuierai
Nearest frequency peer: ennuierai (-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 « entailler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfouit
enfouit
17,081 corpus weight
- engrangés
engrangés
17,080 corpus weight
- ennuierai
ennuierai
17,079 corpus weight
- entailler
entailler
17,078 corpus weight
- entregent
entregent
17,077 corpus weight
- entreposée
entreposée
17,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entailler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entailler is uncommon French at frequency #82,923 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tɑ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entailler has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is entailler, spelled E-N-T-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couper, en y pratiquant une entaille, une pierre, une pièce de bois, etc.
- 2Marquer, par une profonde entaille, le relief.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait plus de deux heures que les quatre hommes, descendus dans le fossé creusé autour de l’ormeau, un ormeau gigantesque, entaillaient le pied à grands coups de hache.
Quand je fus assuré que le silence était bien revenu, je saisis un canif et fis de mon mieux pour tenter de m’entailler la jambe droite. Mais la lame était émoussée et je manquais de cœur à l’ouvrage.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).