étreint
\et.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“étreint” is uncommon French (frequency #51,837 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,837
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de étreindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etreint · étreint · French
étreint · rank #51,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,837
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH évangéliser
Nearest frequency peer: évangéliser (+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 « étreint »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- égalant
égalant
48,168 corpus weight
- éjaculer
éjaculer
48,167 corpus weight
- éperons
éperons
48,166 corpus weight
- étreint
étreint
48,164 corpus weight
- évangéliser
évangéliser
48,163 corpus weight
- ôtez
ôtez
48,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étreint » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étreint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \et.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étreint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étreint is uncommon French at frequency #51,837 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \et.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for étreint in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is étreint, spelled É-T-R-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de étreindre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de étreindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étreint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà le sujet passionnant dont s’est emparée Suzanne Pagé, la directrice artistique de la Fondation Louis Vuitton, qui déploie une sélection spectaculaire de 300 œuvres (tableaux, photographies, documents) pour raconter l’émulation qui a étreint le duo de génies au point de donner naissance à une collaboration foisonnante, singulière et profondément émou…
À Kitège où règnent le prince Vsiévolod et son père, l’angoisse étreint les âmes.
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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