Érythrée
\e.ʁi.tʁe\
The verdict
“Érythrée” is uncommon French (frequency #50,033 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,033
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays de la Corne de l’Afrique, voisin du Soudan à l’ouest, de l’Éthiopie au sud, de Djibouti au sud-est, et de la mer Rouge à l’est. Sa capitale est Asmara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erythree · Érythrée · French
Érythrée · rank #50,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH équipementiers
Nearest frequency peer: équipementiers (-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 « Érythrée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épaissit
épaissit
49,971 corpus weight
- épisodique
épisodique
49,970 corpus weight
- équipementi…
équipementiers
49,969 corpus weight
- Érythrée
Érythrée
49,968 corpus weight
- étables
étables
49,967 corpus weight
- étiquetés
étiquetés
49,966 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Érythrée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Érythrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁi.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Érythrée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Érythrée is uncommon French at frequency #50,033 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.ʁi.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Érythrée, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Érythrée, spelled É-R-Y-T-H-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Pays de la Corne de l’Afrique, voisin du Soudan à l’ouest, de l’Éthiopie au sud, de Djibouti au sud-est, et de la mer Rouge à l’est. Sa capitale est Asmara.
- 2Autre nom de la péninsule turque de Karabouroun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Érythrée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Abyssinie ou Éthiopie est un Empire africain situé entre le Soudan, l’Afrique orientale anglaise, l’Érythrée et les Somalilands, français, anglais et italien. Son extension territoriale est supérieure à celle de la France […]
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).