étamine
\e.ta.min\
The verdict
“étamine” is uncommon French (frequency #90,348 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,348
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe floral de l’androcée, producteur de pollen, composé d’un filet allongé et d’une anthère renflée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etamine · étamine · French
étamine · rank #90,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étalez
Nearest frequency peer: étalez (-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 « étamine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éradiqués
éradiqués
9,656 corpus weight
- érectiles
érectiles
9,655 corpus weight
- étalez
étalez
9,654 corpus weight
- étamine
étamine
9,653 corpus weight
- évanouissem…
évanouissements
9,652 corpus weight
- éveilla
éveilla
9,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étamine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étamine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ta.min\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étamine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étamine is uncommon French at frequency #90,348 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ta.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organe floral de l’androcée, producteur de pollen, composé d’un filet allongé et d’une anthère renflée.".
étamine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is étamine, spelled É-T-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Organe floral de l’androcée, producteur de pollen, composé d’un filet allongé et d’une anthère renflée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étamine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Bourges, j’ai vu danser sur un vitrail une Salomé vêtue de pourpre ; elle allait, sautant sur les mains, creusant les reins ; et ses jambes pendaient au-dessus de sa tête comme deux étamines issues d’un lis rouge.
M. Dickson dit avoir vu toutes les fleurs d’un Iris pseudacorus ayant un tépale converti en étamine à sommet pétaloïde.
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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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