étales
\e.tal\
The verdict
“étales” is uncommon French (frequency #85,412 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,412
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de étale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etales · étales · French
étales · rank #85,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,412
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éreintant
Nearest frequency peer: éreintant (-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 « étales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émulateurs
émulateurs
14,593 corpus weight
- équin
équin
14,591 corpus weight
- éreintant
éreintant
14,590 corpus weight
- étales
étales
14,589 corpus weight
- étayés
étayés
14,588 corpus weight
- éveillera
éveillera
14,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étales is uncommon French at frequency #85,412 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de étale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for étales in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 étales, spelled É-T-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de étale.
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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