entité

/\ɑ̃.ti.te\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,820

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

entité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chose ou être qui existe par elle-même. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ti.te\. It ranks #6,820 in French word frequency. Often confused with entre and envie.

Key facts for entité
PropertyValue
Headwordentité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ti.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,820
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of entité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for entité is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ti.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,820 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for entité, with forms such as "enitté", "enntité", and "entite". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "entre", "envie", "évite", 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 entité, spelled E-N-T-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chose ou être qui existe par elle-même.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des propriétés constitutives d'un être ou de l’essence d’une chose.
  3. 3
    Abstraction, symbole, signe, idée, auquel on accorde une existence.
  4. 4
    Chose considérée comme un être ayant son individualité.
  5. 5
    Être extraterrestre.
  6. 6
    Structure de données composée de propriétés lors de l’analyse, destinées à être stockées dans une table.
  7. 7
    Division géographique que l’on peut se représenter mentalement.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: enitté,enntité,entite,entitté,entiét,enttité,enttié,etnité,netité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entité

Misspelling Variants of "entité"

enitté6enntité7entite6entitté7entiét6enttité7enttié6etnité6
Misspelling Variants of "entité"

Frequency rank: #6,820 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "entité"?
"entité" is spelled E-N-T-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ti.te\.
What does "entité" mean?
As a noun, "entité" means: Chose ou être qui existe par elle-même.
What words are commonly confused with "entité"?
"entité" is commonly confused with "entre", "envie", "évite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "entité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "entité" is \ɑ̃.ti.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "entité" come from?
"entité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.