égide
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,943
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
égide is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arme mythique prodigieuse, autant offensive que défensive, utilisée par Athéna Pallas, symbole de sa puissance protectrice, et par Zeus qui en l’agitant déclenche l’orage. Sa description et son ori... Pronounced \e.ʒid\. Often confused with élie and eine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | égide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʒid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for égide is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʒid\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,943 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for égide, with forms such as "egide", "géide", and "égdie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "élie", "eine", "étude", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is égide, spelled É-G-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme mythique prodigieuse, autant offensive que défensive, utilisée par Athéna Pallas, symbole de sa puissance protectrice, et par Zeus qui en l’agitant déclenche l’orage. Sa description et son origine diffère selon les sources : bouclier, cuirasse, ou tunique, tantôt recouverte de la peau de la chèvre nourricière Amalthée, ou de celle du géant Pallas, tantôt ornée de la tête de Méduse et bordée de serpents. Selon l’Iliade elle aurait été forgée par Héphaïstos, ou selon Hésiode donnée à Athéna par sa mère Métis.
- 2Protection, sauvegarde.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egide,géide,égdie,éggide,égidde,égied,éigde
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Misspelling Variants of "égide"
Frequency rank: #13,943 in French
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