entêté
\ɑ̃.te.te\
The verdict
“entêté” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,635. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,635
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est trop attaché à ses opinions, à ses désirs ; à qui l’on ne peut faire entendre raison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entete · entêté · French
entêté · rank #49,635 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,635
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enveloppés
Nearest frequency peer: enveloppés (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « entêté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enfantines
enfantines
50,370 corpus weight
- Enora
Enora
50,369 corpus weight
- ensoleillés
ensoleillés
50,368 corpus weight
- entêté
entêté
50,366 corpus weight
- enveloppés
enveloppés
50,365 corpus weight
- español
español
50,363 corpus weight
What this shows « entêté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entêté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.te.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entêté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around entêté (IPA \ɑ̃.te.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,635 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est trop attaché à ses opinions, à ses désirs ; à qui l’on ne peut faire entendre raison.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for entêté, with forms such as "enntêté", "entete", and "enttêté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "entre", "entrée", "entité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is entêté, spelled E-N-T-Ê-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est trop attaché à ses opinions, à ses désirs ; à qui l’on ne peut faire entendre raison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entêté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès le lendemain du crime, je devins éperdument amoureux de Rosalie. Je songeai aussitôt à en faire ma maîtresse, mais je me heurtai à une résistance entêtée et joviale, qui exaspéra et redoubla ma passion.
Combien de camisards entêtés dans leur foi, combien de magnarelles diligentes n’ont pas vécu ici sans prévoir cette mort prochaine de leur petite patrie !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntêté
- entete
- enttêté
- enttêé
- entêtté
- entêét
- enêtté
- etnêté
- netêté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entêté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).