étanche
\e.tɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“étanche” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,621
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne laisse pas passer les liquides ou les gaz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etanche · étanche · French
étanche · rank #20,621 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,621
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étagère
Nearest frequency peer: étagère (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « étanche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- énigmes
énigmes
79,384 corpus weight
- équivalentes
équivalentes
79,382 corpus weight
- étagère
étagère
79,381 corpus weight
- étanche
étanche
79,380 corpus weight
- abusent
abusent
79,377 corpus weight
- acceptera
acceptera
79,376 corpus weight
What this shows « étanche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étanche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around étanche (IPA \e.tɑ̃ʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,621 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for étanche, with forms such as "etanche", "téanche", and "éatnche". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "élance", "ébauche", "élancée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étanche, spelled É-T-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne laisse pas passer les liquides ou les gaz.
- 2Qui résiste à une immersion.
- 3Qui ne se laisse pas influencer par des éléments extérieurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étanche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si ses murs n’eussent pas été suffisamment étanches dans la saison des pluies, à cette époque du moins ils garantissaient à peu près contre un froid intense.
Les mastics bitumineux sont des mélanges de fines et de bitume. Leur principal intérêt est d’être thermofusibles, étanches ne comportant pas de vide, et adhérant à leur support.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etanche
- téanche
- éatnche
- étacnhe
- étancche
- étanceh
- étanchhe
- étanhce
- étannche
- étnache
- éttanche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étanche - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étanche", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).