entêté

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for entêté is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.te.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,635 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "entre", "entrée", "entité", 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 entêté, spelled E-N-T-Ê-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.