éventrer
\e.vɑ̃.tʁe\
The verdict
“éventrer” is uncommon French (frequency #84,470 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,470
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrir le ventre pour en tirer les intestins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eventrer · éventrer · French
éventrer · rank #84,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,470
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éventrée
Nearest frequency peer: éventrée (+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 « éventrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- époustoufla…
époustouflantes
15,536 corpus weight
- étaye
étaye
15,535 corpus weight
- éthéré
éthéré
15,534 corpus weight
- étourdir
étourdir
15,533 corpus weight
- éventrer
éventrer
15,531 corpus weight
- éventrée
éventrée
15,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éventrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éventrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.vɑ̃.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éventrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éventrer is uncommon French at frequency #84,470 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.vɑ̃.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for éventrer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 éventrer, spelled É-V-E-N-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrir le ventre pour en tirer les intestins.
- 2Blesser en déchirant ou en fendant le ventre.
- 3Ouvrir de force et en déchirant ; faire une brèche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éventrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierre. – Lâchez-moi, misérables, ou je vous éventre comme des pourceaux !
La première scène qui s'offre à nos yeux est une scène de carnage : des hommes roux, aux cheveux incultes, armés de coutelas, les bras nus et rouges de sang, éventrent des morues fraîches et les décapitent.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).