entorse
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,002
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
entorse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Distension violente et douloureuse des ligaments, et en général des parties molles qui entourent une articulation. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tɔʁs\. Often confused with entre and entrée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entorse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entorse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tɔʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,002 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for entorse, with forms such as "enntorse", "enotrse", and "entores". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "entre", "entrée", "entouré", 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 entorse, spelled E-N-T-O-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Distension violente et douloureuse des ligaments, et en général des parties molles qui entourent une articulation.
- 2Exception à une règle ou à une tradition.
- 3Tort subi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntorse,enotrse,entores,entorrse,entorsse,entosre,entrose,enttorse,etnorse,netorse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entorse
Misspelling Variants of "entorse"
Frequency rank: #21,002 in French
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