étendre
\e.tɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“étendre” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,515 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #5,515
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
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 | 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) |
Where “étendre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étendre is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for étendre, with forms such as "etendre", "téendre", and "éetndre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "étendu", "étendue", "étendus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étendre, spelled É-T-E-N-D-R-E.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étendre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “étendre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-T-E-N-D-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.tɑ̃dʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “étendu” - see the side-by-side comparison. étendre vs étendu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.