étende
\e.tɑ̃d\
The verdict
“étende” is uncommon French (frequency #54,357 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,357
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de étendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etende · étende · French
étende · rank #54,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,357
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH établisse
Nearest frequency peer: établisse (-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 « étende »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émerveillée
émerveillée
45,648 corpus weight
- épanouis
épanouis
45,647 corpus weight
- Éphèse
Éphèse
45,646 corpus weight
- établisse
établisse
45,645 corpus weight
- étende
étende
45,644 corpus weight
- éternue
éternue
45,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étende » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étende |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étende » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étende is uncommon French at frequency #54,357 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étende, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is étende, spelled É-T-E-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de étendre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de étendre.
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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