Erstein
\ɛʁ.ʃtajn\
The verdict
“Erstein” is uncommon French (frequency #88,593 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,593
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département du Bas-Rhin, en Alsace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erstein · Erstein · French
Erstein · rank #88,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,593
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entêtant
Nearest frequency peer: entêtant (-2 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 « Erstein »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ensemencer
ensemencer
11,413 corpus weight
- enthousiasm…
enthousiasmés
11,412 corpus weight
- entêtant
entêtant
11,410 corpus weight
- Erstein
Erstein
11,408 corpus weight
- escaladent
escaladent
11,406 corpus weight
- esquivant
esquivant
11,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Erstein » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erstein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.ʃtajn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Erstein » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Erstein is uncommon French at frequency #88,593 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛʁ.ʃtajn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Erstein in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Erstein, spelled E-R-S-T-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département du Bas-Rhin, en Alsace.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
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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