entamait
\ɑ̃.ta.mɛ\
The verdict
“entamait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,764 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,764
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entamer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entamait · entamait · French
entamait · rank #74,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,764
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enracinées
Nearest frequency peer: enracinées (-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 « entamait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enjoliveurs
enjoliveurs
25,240 corpus weight
- enki
enki
25,239 corpus weight
- enracinées
enracinées
25,238 corpus weight
- entamait
entamait
25,237 corpus weight
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneure
25,235 corpus weight
- entreprirent
entreprirent
25,234 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entamait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entamait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ta.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entamait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entamait is uncommon French at frequency #74,764 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ta.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entamer.".
entamait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is entamait, spelled E-N-T-A-M-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entamer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entamait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le preneur était d’ailleurs libre d’améliorer ; mais si l’imprudent restaurait son appartement, le petit Molineux pensait nuit et jour à la manière de le déloger pour réoccuper l’appartement fraîchement décoré ; il le guettait, l’attendait et entamait la série de ses mauvais procédés.
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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