entrelace
\ɑ̃.tʁə.las\
The verdict
“entrelace” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de entrelacer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrelace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.las\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entrelace” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
entrelace is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁə.las\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for entrelace, 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is entrelace, spelled E-N-T-R-E-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de entrelacer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de entrelacer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de entrelacer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de entrelacer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de entrelacer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “entrelace”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-T-R-E-L-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.tʁə.las\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.