entama
\ɑ̃.ta.ma\
The verdict
“entama” is uncommon French (frequency #55,257 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,257
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de entamer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entama · entama · French
entama · rank #55,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,257
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enquêtait
Nearest frequency peer: enquêtait (-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 « entama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enlacer
enlacer
44,748 corpus weight
- Ennahdha
Ennahdha
44,747 corpus weight
- enquêtait
enquêtait
44,745 corpus weight
- entama
entama
44,744 corpus weight
- entonne
entonne
44,743 corpus weight
- entourloupe
entourloupe
44,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ta.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entama is uncommon French at frequency #55,257 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ta.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de entamer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for entama in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 entama, spelled E-N-T-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de entamer.
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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