entendirent
\ɑ̃.tɑ̃.diʁ\
The verdict
“entendirent” is uncommon French (frequency #69,812 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,812
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de entendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entendirent · entendirent · French
entendirent · rank #69,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,812
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entendions
Nearest frequency peer: entendions (-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 « entendirent »
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 « entendirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entendirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɑ̃.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entendirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entendirent is uncommon French at frequency #69,812 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tɑ̃.diʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de entendre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for entendirent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 entendirent, spelled E-N-T-E-N-D-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de entendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entendirent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfants entendirent un crépitement ferrailleux sur l’asphalte, comme une pluie d’ustensiles de cuisine qui s’abattait sur la chaussée.
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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