étayée
\e.tɛ.je\
The verdict
“étayée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,290
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de étayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etayee · étayée · French
étayée · rank #48,290 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,290
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH étai
Nearest frequency peer: étai (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “étayée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- épopées
épopées
51,717 corpus weight
- éprise
éprise
51,716 corpus weight
- éradiqué
éradiqué
51,715 corpus weight
- ésotériques
ésotériques
51,714 corpus weight
- étai
étai
51,712 corpus weight
- étayée
étayée
51,711 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “étayée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | étayée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étayée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around étayée (IPA \e.tɛ.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,290 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de étayer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for étayée, with forms such as "etayee", "téayée", and "éatyée". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "étayer", "étape", "étage", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is étayée, spelled É-T-A-Y-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de étayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étayée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette affirmation, qui conclut l’article « Néo-libéralisme, anti-politisme et individualisme possessif », est largement étayée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etayee
- téayée
- éatyée
- étayeé
- étayyée
- étaéye
- éttayée
- étyaée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étayée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étayée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.