entrecôte
\ɑ̃.tʁə.kot\
The verdict
“entrecôte” is uncommon French (frequency #55,935 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,935
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de viande prélevé dans le même morceau que la côte de bœuf, mais désossé et coupé dans la tranche pour en réduire l'épaisseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entrecote · entrecôte · French
entrecôte · rank #55,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,935
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enracine
Nearest frequency peer: enracine (-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 « entrecôte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- engourdisse…
engourdissement
44,069 corpus weight
- enneigés
enneigés
44,068 corpus weight
- enracine
enracine
44,067 corpus weight
- entrecôte
entrecôte
44,066 corpus weight
- envisages
envisages
44,065 corpus weight
- Ermont
Ermont
44,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entrecôte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrecôte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.kot\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entrecôte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entrecôte is uncommon French at frequency #55,935 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁə.kot\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Morceau de viande prélevé dans le même morceau que la côte de bœuf, mais désossé et coupé dans la tranche pour en réduire l'épaisseur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for entrecôte in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 entrecôte, spelled E-N-T-R-E-C-Ô-T-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau de viande prélevé dans le même morceau que la côte de bœuf, mais désossé et coupé dans la tranche pour en réduire l'épaisseur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entrecôte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une entrecôte grillée, braisée.
Cette entrecôte est très tendre.
This word in other languages
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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