étends
\e.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“étends” is uncommon French (frequency #64,898 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,898
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de étendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etends · étends · French
étends · rank #64,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,898
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épouvantails
Nearest frequency peer: épouvantails (-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 « étends »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émoussé
émoussé
35,107 corpus weight
- épanouissant
épanouissant
35,106 corpus weight
- épinard
épinard
35,105 corpus weight
- épouvantails
épouvantails
35,104 corpus weight
- étends
étends
35,103 corpus weight
- ôtant
ôtant
35,102 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étends » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étends |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étends » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étends is uncommon French at frequency #64,898 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for étends in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étends, spelled É-T-E-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de étendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de étendre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif 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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