entourage
\ɑ̃.tu.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“entourage” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,328 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,328
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce qui entoure un objet, en guise d’ornement.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entourage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tu.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entourage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entourage is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tu.ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,328 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for entourage, with forms such as "enntourage", "enoturage", and "entoruage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "entouré", "entourée", "entourant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 entourage, spelled E-N-T-O-U-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui entoure un objet, en guise d’ornement.
- 2Ensemble de ceux qui entourent ordinairement quelqu’un, qui vivent dans sa familiarité.
- 3Mur de briques rouges (le mur peut être à intérieur d'une maison ou à l'extérieur d'une maison).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntourage,enoturage,entoruage,entouarge,entouraeg,entouragge,entourgae,entourrage,enttourage,entuorage,etnourage,netourage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entourage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “entourage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-T-O-U-R-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.tu.ʁaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “entouré” - see the side-by-side comparison. entourage vs entouré
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.