entrais
\ɑ̃.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“entrais” is uncommon French (frequency #60,756 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,756
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entrais · entrais · French
entrais · rank #60,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,756
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engendrera
Nearest frequency peer: engendrera (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « entrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encercle
encercle
39,248 corpus weight
- encrage
encrage
39,247 corpus weight
- engendrera
engendrera
39,246 corpus weight
- entrais
entrais
39,245 corpus weight
- entreprends
entreprends
39,244 corpus weight
- entretiendra
entretiendra
39,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entrais is uncommon French at frequency #60,756 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entrais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is entrais, spelled E-N-T-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entrer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entrais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’entrais dans la pièce, admirais les moulures des hauts murs d’un rose pâle, exceptionnellement colorés par le lampadaire à la lumière rose-orangée qui diffusait son atmosphère tamisée tout autour de nous.
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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