entouraient
\ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“entouraient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,781
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entourer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entouraient · entouraient · French
entouraient · rank #39,781 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,781
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enter
Nearest frequency peer: enter (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « entouraient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enfouie
enfouie
60,223 corpus weight
- ensoleillées
ensoleillées
60,222 corpus weight
- enter
enter
60,221 corpus weight
- entouraient
entouraient
60,220 corpus weight
- enverrais
enverrais
60,219 corpus weight
- envisageons
envisageons
60,218 corpus weight
What this shows « entouraient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | entouraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #39,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entouraient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around entouraient (IPA \ɑ̃.tu.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,781 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entourer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for entouraient, with forms such as "enntouraient", "enoturaient", and "entoruaient". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "entourent", "entourant", "entourait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is entouraient, spelled E-N-T-O-U-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entourer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entouraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il fait froid ! s’était-il écrié tandis que ses sœurs, aux cheveux dénoués, habillées de chemise de nuit pâles, de jupes onduleuses et de robes de lin froufroutantes, ornées de rubans multicolores (zinzolin, nacarat, aurore), forçaient les malles, les débarras et les penderies, allumaient les bougies, plantaient des bouquets dans les vases, crocheta…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntouraient
- enoturaient
- entoruaient
- entouarient
- entouraeint
- entouraiennt
- entouraientt
- entouraietn
- entourainet
- entouriaent
- entourraient
- enttouraient
- entuoraient
- etnouraient
- netouraient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entouraient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).