entretint
\ɑ̃.tʁə.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“entretint” is uncommon French (frequency #69,815 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,815
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de entretenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entretint · entretint · French
entretint · rank #69,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,815
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entrerons
Nearest frequency peer: entrerons (-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 « entretint »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entendirent
entendirent
30,189 corpus weight
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneuse
30,188 corpus weight
- entrerons
entrerons
30,187 corpus weight
- entretint
entretint
30,186 corpus weight
- envahissait
envahissait
30,185 corpus weight
- enveloppeme…
enveloppement
30,184 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entretint » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entretint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entretint is uncommon French at frequency #69,815 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁə.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de entretenir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for entretint in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is entretint, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de entretenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entretint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette infécondité, qui, de mois en mois, lui fit verser des torrents de larmes, entretint longtemps le mépris de Brigitte, qui lui reprochait de n’être bonne à rien, pas même à faire des enfants.
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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