ontspannen
\ɔnt.spa.nǝⁿ\
The verdict
“ontspannen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se détendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ontspannen · ontspannen · French
ontspannen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ontspannen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔnt.spa.nǝⁿ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ontspannen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ontspannen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔnt.spa.nǝⁿ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se détendre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ontspannen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ontspannen, spelled O-N-T-S-P-A-N-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Se détendre.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.