entêter
\ɑ̃.te.te\
The verdict
“entêter” is uncommon French (frequency #72,302 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,302
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incommoder, étourdir en agissant sur la tête, en parlant des vapeurs, des odeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enteter · entêter · French
entêter · rank #72,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,302
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enveloppante
Nearest frequency peer: enveloppante (+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 « entêter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enrober
enrober
27,703 corpus weight
- Enthoven
Enthoven
27,702 corpus weight
- entêter
entêter
27,699 corpus weight
- enveloppante
enveloppante
27,698 corpus weight
- environnent
environnent
27,697 corpus weight
- envolez
envolez
27,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entêter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entêter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.te.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entêter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entêter is uncommon French at frequency #72,302 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.te.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
entêter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 entêter, spelled E-N-T-Ê-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Incommoder, étourdir en agissant sur la tête, en parlant des vapeurs, des odeurs.
- 2Faire monter à l’esprit des illusions.
- 3Prévenir en faveur d’une personne ou d’une opinion.
- 4Attacher la tête d'une épingle à la hanse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entêter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se réveilla tard et retentit cette sensation désagréable qui vous prend quand votre poêle entête ;il avait une migraine désagréable.
— Ce parfum entête. - Ce vin est fumeux, il entête.
Synonyms
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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