fente
\fɑ̃t\
The verdict
“fente” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,624 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,624
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Division en long pratiquée à un corps, à une masse quelconque.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fente” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fente is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,624 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fente, with forms such as "efnte", "fenet", and "fennte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "font", "fête", "fine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 fente, spelled F-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Division en long pratiquée à un corps, à une masse quelconque.
- 2Petite ouverture en long.
- 3Type de greffe des arbres
- 4État du bois qui se fend spontanément.
- 5Échancrure étroite et profonde existant dans un os, et donnant passage à des nerfs ou à des vaisseaux.
- 6Fracture légère, incomplète, des os du crâne.
- 7Excavation qui semble être une fente dans une masse.
- 8Gerçures ou intervalle dans les filons métalliques.
- 9Division d'une succession échue à des ascendants ou à des collatéraux en deux parts égales, l'une pour les parents de la ligne paternelle, l'autre pour les parents de la ligne maternelle.
- 10Exercice de flexion des jambes, où l'une est tendue vers l'arrière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efnte,fenet,fennte,fentte,fetne,ffente,fnete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fente - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “fente”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɑ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “font” - see the side-by-side comparison. fente vs font
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.