étendre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,515
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
étendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire qu’une chose acquière plus de surface ou plus de volume, soit en la rendant plus mince, soit en la tirant ou en la dilatant. Pronounced \e.tɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #5,515 in French word frequency. Often confused with étendu and étendue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étendre is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,515 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for étendre, with forms such as "etendre", "téendre", and "éetndre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "étendu", "étendue", "étendus", 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 étendre, spelled É-T-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire qu’une chose acquière plus de surface ou plus de volume, soit en la rendant plus mince, soit en la tirant ou en la dilatant.
- 2Donner plus de portée à une idée, à un mot, au contenu d’un texte.
- 3Déployer en long et en large.
- 4Déployer en long et en large.
- 5Déployer sur le long ou sur le large.
- 6Renverser de telle sorte à coucher, en parlant d’une personne.
- 7Tuer, généralement par balle.
- 8Élargir, agrandir, augmenter.
- 9Augmenter la proportion de dissolvant dans une solution.
- 10Tenir un certain espace, se prolonger jusqu’à un certain endroit.
- 11Se dit des personnes, en parlant de leur propriété.
- 12Il se dit, dans cette acception, de certaines choses.
- 13Il se dit particulièrement de la Vue.
- 14…
- 15Durer.
- 16s’allonger, se coucher, pour faire un petit somme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etendre,téendre,éetndre,étednre,étenddre,étender,étendrre,étenndre,étenrde,étnedre,éttendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for étendre
Misspelling Variants of "étendre"
Frequency rank: #5,515 in French
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