entretenues
\ɑ̃.tʁə.tə.ny\
The verdict
“entretenues” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,149
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de entretenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entretenues · entretenues · French
entretenues · rank #30,149 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,149
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envahisseur
Nearest frequency peer: envahisseur (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « entretenues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ennuient
ennuient
69,855 corpus weight
- ennuyeuse
ennuyeuse
69,854 corpus weight
- entretenues
entretenues
69,852 corpus weight
- envahisseur
envahisseur
69,851 corpus weight
- exotisme
exotisme
69,850 corpus weight
- explosives
explosives
69,849 corpus weight
What this shows « entretenues » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretenues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.tə.ny\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #30,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entretenues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around entretenues (IPA \ɑ̃.tʁə.tə.ny\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,149 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for entretenues, with forms such as "enntretenues", "enrtetenues", and "entertenues". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "entretenus", "entretenu", "entretenue", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is entretenues, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-E-N-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de entretenu.
- 2Se dit de deux clés (ou plus) dont les anneaux sont interconnectés comme passés les uns dans les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entretenues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’azur à deux clefs adossées en pal et entretenues d’or, aux anneaux losangés et pommetés, qui est de la commune de Cluny (anciennes armoiries) → voir illustration « clés entretenues »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntretenues
- enrtetenues
- entertenues
- entreetnues
- entreteneus
- entretennues
- entretenuess
- entretenuse
- entreteunes
- entretneues
- entrettenues
- entrretenues
- entrteenues
- enttretenues
- etnretenues
- netretenues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entretenues - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "entretenues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).