entretoise
\ɑ̃.tʁə.twaz\
The verdict
“entretoise” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce rigide qui se met entre d’autres pour les soutenir ou les lier ensemble avec un écartement figé, ou pour les maintenir à un écartement fixe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entretoise · entretoise · French
entretoise · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.twaz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
entretoise is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁə.twaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce rigide qui se met entre d’autres pour les soutenir ou les lier ensemble avec un écartement figé, ou pour les maintenir à un écartement fixe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for entretoise, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 entretoise, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce rigide qui se met entre d’autres pour les soutenir ou les lier ensemble avec un écartement figé, ou pour les maintenir à un écartement fixe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entretoise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pieds des tréteaux sont liés entre eux par des entretoises.
Au bout d’un autre couloir surmonté de hauts plafonds à entretoises...
This word in other languages
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.