fente

\fɑ̃t\

/\fɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“fente” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,624. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,624
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division en long pratiquée à un corps, à une masse quelconque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fente · fente · French

fente · rank #21,624 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,624
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fascine

Nearest frequency peer: fascine (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fente »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fente » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fente vs font
60% similar
fente vs fête
60% similar
fente vs fine
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fente
PropertyValue
Headwordfente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɑ̃t\
Letters5
Frequency rank#21,624
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fente »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fentese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fascine » (#21,623), « fesse » (#21,625), « FAO » (#21,622). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fente » est au #21,624. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around fente (IPA \fɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,624 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Division en long pratiquée à un corps, à une masse quelconque.
  2. 2
    Petite ouverture en long.
  3. 3
    Type de greffe des arbres
  4. 4
    État du bois qui se fend spontanément.
  5. 5
    Échancrure étroite et profonde existant dans un os, et donnant passage à des nerfs ou à des vaisseaux.
  6. 6
    Fracture légère, incomplète, des os du crâne.
  7. 7
    Excavation qui semble être une fente dans une masse.
  8. 8
    Gerçures ou intervalle dans les filons métalliques.
  9. 9
    Division 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.
  10. 10
    Exercice de flexion des jambes, où l'une est tendue vers l'arrière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans une fente de la montagne se trouve un pauvre petit coin de verdure, au milieu duquel on aperçoit une demi-douzaine de huttes en terre couvertes de gazon : ce sont les habitations des insulaires.
  2. Les appartements étaient bien plafonnés, sans fentes ni lézardes ; impossible de supposer que des débris quelconques chutassent par suite de vétusté ou de désagrégation.

This word in other languages

crack(English)hendidura(Español)Schnitt(Deutsch)fenda(Português)

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.

efnte2fenet2fennte1fentte1fetne2ffente1fnete2
Edit distance from "fente"

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 "fente"?
"fente" is spelled F-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɑ̃t\.
What does "fente" mean?
As a noun, "fente" means: Division en long pratiquée à un corps, à une masse quelconque.
What words are commonly confused with "fente"?
"fente" is commonly confused with "font", "fête", "fine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fente" is \fɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fente" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fesse#21,625Fidji#21,626facho#21,621gamma#21,632

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

geler7 variantsguest7 variantsHawaii7 variantsdoudou7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list