entendions
\ɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃\
The verdict
“entendions” is uncommon French (frequency #69,811 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,811
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de entendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entendions · entendions · French
entendions · rank #69,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,811
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enrobée
Nearest frequency peer: enrobée (-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 « entendions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enliser
enliser
30,192 corpus weight
- enrobée
enrobée
30,191 corpus weight
- entendions
entendions
30,190 corpus weight
- entendirent
entendirent
30,189 corpus weight
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneuse
30,188 corpus weight
- entrerons
entrerons
30,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entendions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entendions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entendions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entendions is uncommon French at frequency #69,811 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entendions has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is entendions, spelled E-N-T-E-N-D-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de entendre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de entendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entendions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les soirs, nous entendions des hou-hou plaintifs qui semblaient venir de notre toit, et souvent aussi nous entrevoyions des ombres qui passaient et repassaient rapides, silencieuses, devant les vitres de notre petite fenêtre.
J’ai affaire à un ailurophobe (je parle du visiteur), avec le grand échassier nous nous entendions plutôt bien.
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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