entérite
\ɑ̃.te.ʁit\
The verdict
“entérite” is uncommon French (frequency #52,044 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,044
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation des intestins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enterite · entérite · French
entérite · rank #52,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,044
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enragée
Nearest frequency peer: enragée (-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 « entérite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enlace
enlace
47,960 corpus weight
- eno
eno
47,959 corpus weight
- enragée
enragée
47,958 corpus weight
- entérite
entérite
47,957 corpus weight
- errante
errante
47,955 corpus weight
- esti
esti
47,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entérite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entérite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.te.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entérite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entérite is uncommon French at frequency #52,044 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.te.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation des intestins.".
No misspelling variants are generated for entérite in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is entérite, spelled E-N-T-É-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation des intestins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entérite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. A… G…, demeurant à Troyes, souffre depuis longtemps d’une entérite que différents traitements n'ont pu guérir.
Les veilles et les soucis épuisèrent Anne-Marie, son lait tarit, on me mit en nourrice non loin de là et je m’appliquai, moi aussi, à mourir : d’entérite et peut-être de ressentiment.
This word in other languages
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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