entente
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,754
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
entente is aFrenchnoun. It means: Interprétation qu’on donne à un mot, à une phrase équivoque et susceptible de plusieurs sens. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\. It ranks #5,754 in French word frequency. Often confused with entité and entêté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entente is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,754 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 entente, with forms such as "enetnte", "enntente", and "entenet". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "entité", "entêté", "entrent", 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 entente, spelled E-N-T-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Interprétation qu’on donne à un mot, à une phrase équivoque et susceptible de plusieurs sens.
- 2Intelligence et connaissance approfondie d’une chose.
- 3Bonne intelligence entre des parties.
- 4Pacte entre plusieurs parties.
- 5Accord qui existe entre les vues et les desseins de deux ou plusieurs États sur un certain nombre de questions de politique internationale.
- 6Pratique anticoncurrentielle par laquelle plusieurs acteurs économiques se mettent d’accord pour tenter de contourner les règles de mise en concurrence ou d’augmenter leur marge.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enetnte,enntente,entenet,entennte,ententte,entetne,entnete,enttente,etnente,netente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entente
Misspelling Variants of "entente"
Frequency rank: #5,754 in French
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