entrouvert
\ɑ̃.tʁu.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“entrouvert” is uncommon French (frequency #83,843 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,843
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pas tout à fait ouvert ; à peine ouvert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entrouvert · entrouvert · French
entrouvert · rank #83,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,843
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entrepreneures
Nearest frequency peer: entrepreneures (-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 « entrouvert »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entraînes
entraînes
16,161 corpus weight
- entrelaceme…
entrelacement
16,160 corpus weight
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneures
16,159 corpus weight
- entrouvert
entrouvert
16,158 corpus weight
- environne
environne
16,157 corpus weight
- envolaient
envolaient
16,156 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entrouvert » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrouvert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁu.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entrouvert » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entrouvert is uncommon French at frequency #83,843 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁu.vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for entrouvert, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 entrouvert, spelled E-N-T-R-O-U-V-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Pas tout à fait ouvert ; à peine ouvert.
- 2Qui a fait un effort et qui s’est écarté les jambes par un mouvement si violent qu’il lui en reste l’incommodité appelée entrouverture, en parlant d’un cheval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entrouvert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sortîmes sur la grande cour de la prison et là, dans un coin à gauche, devant la porte entrouverte, on fit quelque chose comme un appel nominal.
Elle les laissa un bon moment seuls dans la salle tandis qu’elle disparaissait par une porte de derrière qu’elle laissa entrouverte.
Synonyms
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); 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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