entrecroisent
\ɑ̃.tʁə.kʁwaz\
The verdict
“entrecroisent” is uncommon French (frequency #64,422 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,422
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de entrecroiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entrecroisent · entrecroisent · French
entrecroisent · rank #64,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,422
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engouffrent
Nearest frequency peer: engouffrent (-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 « entrecroisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encombrées
encombrées
35,582 corpus weight
- endoscopie
endoscopie
35,581 corpus weight
- engouffrent
engouffrent
35,580 corpus weight
- entrecroise…
entrecroisent
35,579 corpus weight
- entremêlées
entremêlées
35,578 corpus weight
- Ernestine
Ernestine
35,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entrecroisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrecroisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.kʁwaz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #64,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entrecroisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entrecroisent is uncommon French at frequency #64,422 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁə.kʁwaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for entrecroisent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is entrecroisent, spelled E-N-T-R-E-C-R-O-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de entrecroiser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de entrecroiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entrecroisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La difficulté que l’on éprouve à les capter et à les circonscrire tient au fait que ces signes sont moins émis que désémis, raturés dès leur esquisse, esquivés dès leur inscription, résultat brouillé de dénégations, subterfuges, confusions, manœuvres de déplacements, dépenses compensatoires, où le jeu de l’écriture et le jeu social (pour simplifier une op…
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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