entêtant
\ɑ̃.te.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“entêtant” is uncommon French (frequency #88,591 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,591
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui étourdit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entetant · entêtant · French
entêtant · rank #88,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,591
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enthousiasmés
Nearest frequency peer: enthousiasmés (-2 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 « entêtant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enroulements
enroulements
11,415 corpus weight
- ensemencer
ensemencer
11,413 corpus weight
- enthousiasm…
enthousiasmés
11,412 corpus weight
- entêtant
entêtant
11,410 corpus weight
- Erstein
Erstein
11,408 corpus weight
- escaladent
escaladent
11,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entêtant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entêtant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.te.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entêtant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entêtant is uncommon French at frequency #88,591 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.te.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entêtant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is entêtant, spelled E-N-T-Ê-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui étourdit.
- 2Qui obsède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entêtant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La case en bois est plutôt cossue. Elle comprend deux étages. Le toit en bardeaux semble avoir perdu quelques écailles, mais la pénombre laisse entrevoir un jardin luxuriant, bien entretenu et agrémenté d’un petit bassin en son centre. Le parfum entêtant du jasmin de nuit envahit tout l’espace.
La femme rassemble ses esprits, proteste et se débat. Nadine sent son corps résister et cogner contre sa hanche, son parfum entêtant. Elle n'a pas de mal à la maîtriser parce que les mouvements de résistance de la femme sont désordonnés et manquent de force.
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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