estompe
\ɛs.tɔ̃p\
The verdict
“estompe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,529
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit rouleau pointu, fait de peau, de coton ou de papier, avec lequel on étend le crayon ou le dessin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estompe · estompe · French
estompe · rank #34,529 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estate
Nearest frequency peer: estate (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « estompe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- essieux
essieux
65,474 corpus weight
- estate
estate
65,473 corpus weight
- estompe
estompe
65,472 corpus weight
- eurodéputés
eurodéputés
65,471 corpus weight
- excommunica…
excommunication
65,470 corpus weight
- explicative
explicative
65,469 corpus weight
What this shows « estompe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estompe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.tɔ̃p\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « estompe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around estompe (IPA \ɛs.tɔ̃p\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,529 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for estompe, with forms such as "esotmpe", "esstompe", and "estmope". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Estonie", "estomper", "estime", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is estompe, spelled E-S-T-O-M-P-E.
Definition
- 1Petit rouleau pointu, fait de peau, de coton ou de papier, avec lequel on étend le crayon ou le dessin.
- 2Dessin fait à l’estompe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how estompe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le seul bruit qu’il y eût alors autour de moi, dans ce profond et complet silence, c’était moi qui le faisais avec mon crayon et mon estompe.
Il reprit ses crayons de couleur et ses estompes abandonnés depuis dix-huit mois, depuis certains jours de vacances où il avait fait le portrait du capitaine Barbier, fier de son uniforme, le visage monté en couleurs, comme en grande tenue de santé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esotmpe
- esstompe
- estmope
- estomep
- estommpe
- estomppe
- estopme
- esttompe
- etsompe
- setompe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of estompe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).