étage

/\e.taʒ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for étage
PropertyValue
Headwordétage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.taʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,499
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of étage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Espace entre deux planchers au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée dans un bâtiment.
  2. 2
    Choses disposées par rangs les unes au-dessus des autres.
  3. 3
    Quelqu’une des parties climaciques d’une cliserie montagnarde.
  4. 4
    Division de période géologique.
  5. 5
    Partie 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.
  6. 6
    Partie d’un circuit électronique réalisant une fonction précise en électronique.
  7. 7
    Ensemble de végétaux de hauteurs similaires.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etage,téage,éatge,étaeg,étagge,étgae,éttage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for étage

Misspelling Variants of "étage"

etage5téage5éatge5étaeg5étagge6étgae5éttage6
Misspelling Variants of "étage"

Frequency rank: #2,499 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étage"?
"étage" is spelled É-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.taʒ\.
What does "étage" mean?
As a noun, "étage" means: Espace entre deux planchers au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée dans un bâtiment.
What words are commonly confused with "étage"?
"étage" is commonly confused with "été", "état", "etre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "étage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étage" is \e.taʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étage" come from?
"étage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.