entretien
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,592
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
entretien is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maintenance ; ensemble des soins et dépenses qu'exigent le maintien de certaines choses en bon état. Pronounced \ɑ̃.tʁə.tjɛ̃\. It ranks #1,592 in French word frequency. Often confused with entretuer and entretiens.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for entretien is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.tʁə.tjɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,592 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for entretien, with forms such as "enntretien", "enrtetien", and "entertien". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "entretuer", "entretiens", "entretient", and more, 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 entretien, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maintenance ; ensemble des soins et dépenses qu'exigent le maintien de certaines choses en bon état.
- 2Ensemble des travaux de jardin ayant pour objet les soins apportés aux pelouses et aux végétaux et le nettoyage des massifs et des circulations.
- 3Fait de maintenir sa santé, sa forme physique, ses capacités intellectuelles ou toute autre chose dans un certain état.
- 4Ce qui est nécessaire pour la subsistance matérielle d’un individu ou d’un groupe et le fait de pourvoir à cette subsistance.
- 5Action de s’entretenir avec une ou plusieurs personnes, discussion.
- 6Ouvrage rédigé sous forme de dialogues.
- 7Colloque, symposium, réunion de spécialistes.
- 8Maintien du son dans une enveloppe sonore, comme par exemple lorsqu'une touche d'un piano reste enfoncée.
- 9Moyen ou chose qui va entretenir un sentiment.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntretien,enrtetien,entertien,entreiten,entretein,entretienn,entretine,entrettien,entrretien,entrteien,enttretien,etnretien,netretien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entretien
Misspelling Variants of "entretien"
Frequency rank: #1,592 in French
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