éteindre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,020
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
éteindre is aFrenchverb. It means: Cesser l’ignition d’une chose. Pronounced \e.tɛ̃dʁ\. It ranks #7,020 in French word frequency. Often confused with étendue and étendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éteindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for éteindre is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tɛ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,020 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for éteindre, with forms such as "eteindre", "téeindre", and "éetindre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "étendue", "étendre", "éteinte", 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 éteindre, spelled É-T-E-I-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cesser l’ignition d’une chose.
- 2Faire cesser une chose qui rappelle le feu ou ses attributs.
- 3Amortir, tempérer, voire étouffer, faire cesser.
- 4Faire oublier complètement, abolir.
- 5Adoucir, affaiblir, atténuer.
- 6S’affaiblir très sensiblement ; toucher à sa fin ; se mourir lentement et presque sans s’en apercevoir.
- 7Se finir faute d’héritiers.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eteindre,téeindre,éetindre,éteidnre,éteinddre,éteinder,éteindrre,éteinndre,éteinrde,étenidre,étiendre,étteindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "éteindre"
Frequency rank: #7,020 in French
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Nearby French words
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