entretuer
\ɑ̃.tʁə.tɥe\
The verdict
“entretuer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,498. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,498
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se tuer l’un l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entretuer · entretuer · French
entretuer · rank #48,498 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,498
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entreposés
Nearest frequency peer: entreposés (-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 « entretuer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entendront
entendront
51,506 corpus weight
- entravée
entravée
51,505 corpus weight
- entreposés
entreposés
51,504 corpus weight
- entretuer
entretuer
51,503 corpus weight
- entérine
entérine
51,502 corpus weight
- envoûtante
envoûtante
51,501 corpus weight
What this shows « entretuer » 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 | entretuer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.tɥe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entretuer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around entretuer (IPA \ɑ̃.tʁə.tɥe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,498 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se tuer l’un l’autre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for entretuer, with forms such as "enntretuer", "enrtetuer", and "entertuer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "entrevue", "entrevues", "entretien", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 entretuer, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se tuer l’un l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entretuer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant au massacre, c’est inévitable… Rien à y faire. Nous sommes des civilisés, des apprivoisés, tout à coup obligés de s’entretuer…
Les irakiens continuent de s’entretuer : Une autre journée sanglante, une autre journée où le peuple irakien préfère se faire sauter la tronche plutôt que de dialoguer…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntretuer
- enrtetuer
- entertuer
- entreteur
- entrettuer
- entretuerr
- entreture
- entreuter
- entrretuer
- entrteuer
- enttretuer
- etnretuer
- netretuer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entretuer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).