été

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for été is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #65 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "La plus chaude des quatre saisons de l’année. Dans l’hémisphère nord, l’été astronomique s’étend du 7 mai au 7 août, le solstice d’été représentant le milieu de l’été. L’été météorologique, qui com...".

No misspelling variants are generated for été in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Eu", "ez", "EV", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is été, spelled É-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.