entêtement
\ɑ̃.tɛt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“entêtement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,592
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attachement opiniâtre d’une personne à ses opinions, à ses goûts, à ses vues, à ses projets, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entetement · entêtement · French
entêtement · rank #30,592 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,592
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ennuyant
Nearest frequency peer: ennuyant (-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 « entêtement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- endommagées
endommagées
69,412 corpus weight
- engagez
engagez
69,411 corpus weight
- ennuyant
ennuyant
69,410 corpus weight
- entêtement
entêtement
69,409 corpus weight
- envieux
envieux
69,408 corpus weight
- EPA
EPA
69,407 corpus weight
What this shows « entêtement » 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 | entêtement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɛt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entêtement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around entêtement (IPA \ɑ̃.tɛt.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,592 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for entêtement, with forms such as "enntêtement", "entetement", and "enttêement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "entièrement", "enlèvement", "enterrement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is entêtement, spelled E-N-T-Ê-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Attachement opiniâtre d’une personne à ses opinions, à ses goûts, à ses vues, à ses projets, etc.
- 2Engouement pour une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entêtement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était d’un entêtement de brute ; devant une volonté étrangère, nettement formulée, il se serait emporté grossièrement jusqu’à battre les gens.
Sur le même ton caustique, elle décrivait ses trois mariages soldés par deux divorces et un veuvage, son entêtement obsessionnel pour racheter sa bastide, mais aussi ses souvenirs de jeunesse à l’époque des gemmeurs et de la splendeur des Nogaro.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntêtement
- entetement
- enttêement
- enttêtement
- entêetment
- entêteemnt
- entêtemennt
- entêtementt
- entêtemetn
- entêtemment
- entêtemnet
- entêtmeent
- entêttement
- enêttement
- etnêtement
- netêtement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entêtement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).