étendre

/\e.tɑ̃dʁ\/ verb

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.

Key facts for étendre
PropertyValue
Headwordétendre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.tɑ̃dʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,515
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of étendre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Donner plus de portée à une idée, à un mot, au contenu d’un texte.
  3. 3
    Déployer en long et en large.
  4. 4
    Déployer en long et en large.
  5. 5
    Déployer sur le long ou sur le large.
  6. 6
    Renverser de telle sorte à coucher, en parlant d’une personne.
  7. 7
    Tuer, généralement par balle.
  8. 8
    Élargir, agrandir, augmenter.
  9. 9
    Augmenter la proportion de dissolvant dans une solution.
  10. 10
    Tenir un certain espace, se prolonger jusqu’à un certain endroit.
  11. 11
    Se dit des personnes, en parlant de leur propriété.
  12. 12
    Il se dit, dans cette acception, de certaines choses.
  13. 13
    Il se dit particulièrement de la Vue.
  14. 14
  15. 15
    Durer.
  16. 16
    s’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"

etendre7téendre7éetndre7étednre7étenddre8étender7étendrre8étenndre8
Misspelling Variants of "étendre"

Frequency rank: #5,515 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étendre"?
"étendre" is spelled É-T-E-N-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.tɑ̃dʁ\.
What does "étendre" mean?
As a verb, "étendre" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "étendre"?
"étendre" is commonly confused with "étendu", "étendue", "étendus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "étendre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étendre" is \e.tɑ̃dʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étendre" come from?
"étendre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.