épouvantail
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,589
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
épouvantail is aFrenchnoun. It means: Haillon que l’on met au bout d’une perche, d’un bâton dans les chènevières, dans les champs, dans les jardins, pour épouvanter les oiseaux. Pronounced \e.pu.vɑ̃.taj\. Often confused with épouvantable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épouvantail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pu.vɑ̃.taj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épouvantail is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pu.vɑ̃.taj\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,589 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for épouvantail, with forms such as "epouvantail", "péouvantail", and "éopuvantail". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "épouvantable", 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 épouvantail, spelled É-P-O-U-V-A-N-T-A-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Haillon que l’on met au bout d’une perche, d’un bâton dans les chènevières, dans les champs, dans les jardins, pour épouvanter les oiseaux.
- 2Ce qui sert à épouvanter des humains.
- 3Personne habillée ridiculement.
- 4Se dit pour donner à entendre qu’une personne ou qu’une chose, dont on veut nous faire peur, n’est propre qu’à épouvanter des personnes timides.
- 5Cheval qui apparaît comme déclassé et imbattable dans une course, dont il est le grandissime favori.
- 6Figure de rhétorique, synonyme d’homme de paille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epouvantail,péouvantail,éopuvantail,épouavntail,épouvanatil,épouvanntail,épouvantaill,épouvantali,épouvantial,épouvanttail,épouvatnail,épouvnatail,épouvvantail,épovuantail,éppouvantail,épuovantail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for épouvantail
Misspelling Variants of "épouvantail"
Frequency rank: #26,589 in French
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