entre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#88
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
entre is aFrenchprep. It means: Au milieu de ou à peu près au milieu de l’espace qui sépare des personnes ou des choses dont on parle. Pronounced \ɑ̃tʁ\. It ranks #88 in French word frequency. Often confused with été and etre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \ɑ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entre is 5 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃tʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #88 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for entre, with forms such as "enntre", "enrte", and "entrre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "été", "etre", "este", 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 entre, spelled E-N-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Au milieu de ou à peu près au milieu de l’espace qui sépare des personnes ou des choses dont on parle.
- 2Dans l’espace enfermé par les extrémités que l’on désigne.
- 3Dans, en.
- 4De.
- 5Dans un espace de temps, de durée, qui varie entre les bornes désignées.
- 6Parmi.
- 7Qui participe de deux choses, qui tient de l’une et de l’autre.
- 8Dans une certaine relation, en parlant de deux ou de plusieurs personnes ou de deux ou de plusieurs choses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntre,enrte,entrre,enttre,etnre,netre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entre
Misspelling Variants of "entre"
Frequency rank: #88 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our French index: