entente

/\ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\/ noun

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.

Key facts for entente
PropertyValue
Headwordentente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,754
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of entente in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Interprétation qu’on donne à un mot, à une phrase équivoque et susceptible de plusieurs sens.
  2. 2
    Intelligence et connaissance approfondie d’une chose.
  3. 3
    Bonne intelligence entre des parties.
  4. 4
    Pacte entre plusieurs parties.
  5. 5
    Accord qui existe entre les vues et les desseins de deux ou plusieurs États sur un certain nombre de questions de politique internationale.
  6. 6
    Pratique 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"

enetnte7enntente8entenet7entennte8ententte8entetne7entnete7enttente8
Misspelling Variants of "entente"

Frequency rank: #5,754 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "entente"?
"entente" is spelled E-N-T-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\.
What does "entente" mean?
As a noun, "entente" means: Interprétation qu’on donne à un mot, à une phrase équivoque et susceptible de plusieurs sens.
What words are commonly confused with "entente"?
"entente" is commonly confused with "entité", "entêté", "entrent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "entente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "entente" is \ɑ̃.tɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "entente" come from?
"entente" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.