entamer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,213
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
entamer is aFrenchverb. It means: Inciser superficiellement. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ta.me\. Often confused with enter and entrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entamer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ta.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entamer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ta.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,213 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 entamer, with forms such as "enatmer", "enntamer", and "entaemr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "enter", "entrer", "entier", 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 entamer, spelled E-N-T-A-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inciser superficiellement.
- 2Porter atteinte.
- 3Commencer à le rompre, en parlant d'un corps de troupes.
- 4Diminuer une chose en en retranchant une petite partie.
- 5Empiéter, entreprendre sur les droits de quelqu’un, sur sa charge ; l’amener à faire quelque chose contre sa résolution.
- 6Parvenir à connaître ses vues cachées, ses sentiments secrets, en parlant d’une personne.
- 7Prendre quelque avantage dans une discussion, en parlant d’une personne.
- 8Commencer ; engager.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enatmer,enntamer,entaemr,entamerr,entammer,entamre,entmaer,enttamer,etnamer,netamer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "entamer"
Frequency rank: #11,213 in French
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