étayées

\e.tɛ.je\

/\e.tɛ.je\/ verb

The verdict

“étayées” is uncommon French (frequency #65,644 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,644
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de étayer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etayees · étayées · French

étayées · rank #65,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,644
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH éplorée

Nearest frequency peer: éplorée (-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 « étayées »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étayées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for étayées
PropertyValue
Headwordétayées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.tɛ.je\
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,644
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « étayées » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.étayéestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « éplorée » (#65,643), « étirée » (#65,645), « épistémologiques » (#65,642). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « étayées » est au #65,644. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

étayées is uncommon French at frequency #65,644 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de étayer.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étayées, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étayées, spelled É-T-A-Y-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin pluriel de étayer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how étayées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans tous les articles, les auteurs s’attachent scrupuleusement aux faits, aux données brutes et concrètes : pas de bavardage, pas d’interprétations oiseuses, mais des informations précises étayées par des citations sourcées.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étayées"?
"étayées" is spelled É-T-A-Y-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \e.tɛ.je\.
What does "étayées" mean?
As a verb, "étayées" means: Participe passé féminin pluriel de étayer.
How do you pronounce "étayées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étayées" is \e.tɛ.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étayées" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étayées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list