entreprendre
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,436
in French word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
entreprendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre la résolution de faire quelque chose, une action, un ouvrage, et commencer à le mettre à exécution. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #7,436 in French word frequency. Often confused with entreprend.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entreprendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entreprendre is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,436 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for entreprendre, with forms such as "enntreprendre", "enrteprendre", and "enterprendre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "entreprend", 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 entreprendre, spelled E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre la résolution de faire quelque chose, une action, un ouvrage, et commencer à le mettre à exécution.
- 2S’engager à faire ou à fournir quelque chose à certaines conditions, surtout en parlant d’ouvrages ou de fournitures considérables.
- 3Se mettre à poursuivre quelqu’un, à le tourmenter, à le persécuter, à le railler.
- 4Essayer d’agir sur quelqu’un.
- 5Empiéter, usurper.
- 6Chercher à séduire.
- 7Diriger une action contre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntreprendre,enrteprendre,enterprendre,entreperndre,entrepprendre,entreprednre,entreprenddre,entreprender,entreprendrre,entreprenndre,entreprenrde,entreprnedre,entreprrendre,entrerpendre,entrperendre,entrreprendre,enttreprendre,etnreprendre,netreprendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entreprendre
Misspelling Variants of "entreprendre"
Frequency rank: #7,436 in French
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