étage
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,499
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
étage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espace entre deux planchers au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée dans un bâtiment. Pronounced \e.taʒ\. It ranks #2,499 in French word frequency. Often confused with été and état.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.taʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,499 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for étage, with forms such as "etage", "téage", and "éatge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "été", "état", "etre", 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 étage, spelled É-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espace entre deux planchers au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée dans un bâtiment.
- 2Choses disposées par rangs les unes au-dessus des autres.
- 3Quelqu’une des parties climaciques d’une cliserie montagnarde.
- 4Division de période géologique.
- 5Partie d’un véhicule aérospatial destinée à en assurer la propulsion de façon autonome et se séparant généralement à l’issue de sa phase de fonctionnement.
- 6Partie d’un circuit électronique réalisant une fonction précise en électronique.
- 7Ensemble de végétaux de hauteurs similaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etage,téage,éatge,étaeg,étagge,étgae,éttage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "étage"
Frequency rank: #2,499 in French
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