entortiller
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
entortiller is aFrenchverb. It means: Envelopper un objet dans quelque chose que l’on tortille ou tortiller quelque chose autour d’un objet. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entortiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entortiller is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tɔʁ.ti.je\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for entortiller in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 entortiller, spelled E-N-T-O-R-T-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Envelopper un objet dans quelque chose que l’on tortille ou tortiller quelque chose autour d’un objet.
- 2Circonvenir quelqu’un, l’envelopper de ruses, de séductions.
- 3Exprimer quelque chose d’une manière embarrassée, obscure, trop recherchée, soit à dessein, soit par défaut de netteté dans les idées.
- 4S’attacher à d’autres en faisant plusieurs tours, en parlant des choses.
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