entend
\ɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“entend” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,625
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de entendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entend · entend · French
entend · rank #1,625 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,625
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH docteur
Nearest frequency peer: docteur (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « entend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- classement
classement
98,379 corpus weight
- conseiller
conseiller
98,378 corpus weight
- docteur
docteur
98,377 corpus weight
- entend
entend
98,376 corpus weight
- formes
formes
98,375 corpus weight
- franchement
franchement
98,374 corpus weight
What this shows « entend » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around entend (IPA \ɑ̃.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,625 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de entendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for entend, with forms such as "enetnd", "enntend", and "entedn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "étend", "enter", "étendu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 entend, spelled E-N-T-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de entendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne criez pas au drame supposé de votre sort : comment voudriez-vous qu’aucun ne s’en vînt au contraire émouvoir au point de trouver motif à rigolbocher s’il entend le dénouement de votre épopée fixe…
L’émir entend dénomadiser les Bédouins de l’intérieur, les convertir au travail agricole ; il fait importer des machines, creuser des puits, planter des palmiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enetnd
- enntend
- entedn
- entendd
- entennd
- entned
- enttend
- etnend
- netend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entend - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).