entêtent
\ɑ̃.tɛt\
The verdict
“entêtent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,875 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,875
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de entêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entetent · entêtent · French
entêtent · rank #95,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,875
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entreprenons
Nearest frequency peer: entreprenons (-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 « entêtent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enthousiasm…
enthousiasmante
4,129 corpus weight
- entrante
entrante
4,128 corpus weight
- entreprenons
entreprenons
4,127 corpus weight
- entêtent
entêtent
4,126 corpus weight
- eram
eram
4,124 corpus weight
- erste
erste
4,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entêtent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entêtent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entêtent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entêtent is uncommon French at frequency #95,875 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for entêtent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 entêtent, spelled E-N-T-Ê-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de entêter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de entêter.
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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