ernst
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,536
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
ernst is anFrenchadj. It means: Sérieux, grave, qui ne sourit pas. Pronounced \ˈɛrnst\. Often confused with Est and ENS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ernst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ˈɛrnst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ernst is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈɛrnst\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,536 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ernst, with forms such as "enrst", "ernnst", and "ernsst". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Est", "ENS", "east", 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 ernst, spelled E-R-N-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sérieux, grave, qui ne sourit pas.
- 2Sérieux, plein de réflexion, qui n'est pas rejouissant.
- 3Sérieux, avec insistance.
- 4Sérieux, important, lourd de conséquences.
- 5Sérieux, qui est sincère ou vrai.
- 6Sérieux, menaçant, qui peut avoir des suites fâcheuses ou de graves conséquences.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enrst,ernnst,ernsst,ernstt,ernts,errnst,ersnt,renst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ernst
Misspelling Variants of "ernst"
Frequency rank: #19,536 in French
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