étala
\e.ta.la\
The verdict
“étala” is uncommon French (frequency #97,597 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,597
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de étaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etala · étala · French
étala · rank #97,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH érythémateux
Nearest frequency peer: érythémateux (-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 « étala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éponymes
éponymes
2,407 corpus weight
- éprouvera
éprouvera
2,406 corpus weight
- érythémateux
érythémateux
2,405 corpus weight
- étala
étala
2,404 corpus weight
- étendront
étendront
2,403 corpus weight
- étriper
étriper
2,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ta.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étala is uncommon French at frequency #97,597 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ta.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de étaler.".
Zero misspellings are on record for étala in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is étala, spelled É-T-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de étaler.
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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