erratum
\ɛ.ʁa.tɔm\
The verdict
“erratum” is uncommon French (frequency #58,594 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,594
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faute survenue dans l’impression d’un ouvrage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erratum · erratum · French
erratum · rank #58,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,594
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entreprenants
Nearest frequency peer: entreprenants (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « erratum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entacher
entacher
41,410 corpus weight
- entraînaient
entraînaient
41,409 corpus weight
- entreprenan…
entreprenants
41,408 corpus weight
- erratum
erratum
41,407 corpus weight
- espionnent
espionnent
41,406 corpus weight
- essaims
essaims
41,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « erratum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erratum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁa.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « erratum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
erratum is uncommon French at frequency #58,594 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.ʁa.tɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for erratum, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is erratum, spelled E-R-R-A-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Faute survenue dans l’impression d’un ouvrage.
- 2Liste rectificative d’erreurs, dans le contexte d’un document imprimé, publié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erratum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a signalé un erratum à l’éditeur.
J'attends toujours la liste des erratums du catalogue.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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