étranglent

\e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\

/\e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\/ verb

The verdict

“étranglent” is uncommon French (frequency #87,282 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,282
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étrangler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etranglent · étranglent · French

étranglent · rank #87,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,282
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH érogène

Nearest frequency peer: érogène (-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 « étranglent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étranglent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for étranglent
PropertyValue
Headwordétranglent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#87,282
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « étranglent » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).étranglenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « érogène » (#87,281), « éveillant » (#87,283), « épinettes » (#87,280). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « étranglent » est au #87,282. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

étranglent is uncommon French at frequency #87,282 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étranglent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is étranglent, spelled É-T-R-A-N-G-L-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étrangler.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de étrangler.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étranglent"?
"étranglent" is spelled É-T-R-A-N-G-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\.
What does "étranglent" mean?
As a verb, "étranglent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étrangler.
How do you pronounce "étranglent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étranglent" is \e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étranglent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étranglent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list