s’entretenir
\s‿ɑ̃.tʁət.niʁ\
The verdict
“s’entretenir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme pronominale de entretenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-entretenir · s’entretenir · French
s’entretenir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | s’entretenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɑ̃.tʁət.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’entretenir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’entretenir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɑ̃.tʁət.niʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme pronominale de entretenir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for s’entretenir, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is s’entretenir, spelled S-’-E-N-T-R-E-T-E-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Forme pronominale de entretenir.
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.