enterra
\ɑ̃.te.ʁa\
The verdict
“enterra” is uncommon French (frequency #92,698 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,698
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de enterrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enterra · enterra · French
enterra · rank #92,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,698
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ensevelisseme…
Nearest frequency peer: ensevelissement (-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 « enterra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enchaînez
enchaînez
7,307 corpus weight
- endura
endura
7,306 corpus weight
- ensevelisse…
ensevelissement
7,304 corpus weight
- enterra
enterra
7,303 corpus weight
- envisagera
envisagera
7,302 corpus weight
- EPC
EPC
7,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enterra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enterra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.te.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enterra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enterra is uncommon French at frequency #92,698 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.te.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de enterrer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for enterra in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented 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 enterra, spelled E-N-T-E-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de enterrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enterra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De ce point de vue, l’administration respectait les convenances et ce n’est que bien plus tard que, par la force des choses, cette dernière pudeur disparut et qu’on enterra pêle-mêle, les uns sur les autres, hommes et femmes, sans souci de la décence.
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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