éteins
\e.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“éteins” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,615
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de éteindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eteins · éteins · French
éteins · rank #29,615 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,615
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH 5s
Nearest frequency peer: 5s (+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 « éteins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- égocentrique
égocentrique
70,391 corpus weight
- énoncer
énoncer
70,389 corpus weight
- éteins
éteins
70,386 corpus weight
- 5s
5s
70,385 corpus weight
- Abby
Abby
70,383 corpus weight
- abstraites
abstraites
70,381 corpus weight
What this shows « éteins » 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 | éteins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éteins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around éteins (IPA \e.tɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,615 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for éteins, with forms such as "eteins", "téeins", and "éetins". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "êtes", "étend", "étuis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is éteins, spelled É-T-E-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de éteindre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de éteindre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de éteindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éteins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un peu plus tard, j’éteins la calbombe et m’allonge sur un canapé, non loin du radiateur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eteins
- téeins
- éetins
- éteinns
- éteinss
- éteisn
- étenis
- étiens
- étteins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éteins - 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 "éteins", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).