étendard

Name: étendard, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\e.tɑ̃.daʁ\

/\e.tɑ̃.daʁ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“étendard” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,376
frequency rank, French: 1,805
“É” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drapeau, en particulier militaire et terrestre → voir pavillon pour la marine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etendard · étendard · French

étendard · rank #18,376 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-MID #18,376
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-MID 1,805
PHOTO-FINISH écoutait

Nearest frequency peer: écoutait (-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.

women

81,630
Zimbabwe

81,628
écoutait

81,626
étendard

81,625
étymologie

81,624
adjudant

81,620

What this shows « étendard » 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).

étendard vs étendre

75% similar

étendard vs étendra

75% similar

étendard vs étendards

89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for étendard
Property	Value
Headword	étendard
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\e.tɑ̃.daʁ\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#18,376
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étendard »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).étendardse place ici:

#18,376

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « écoutait » (#18,375), « étymologie » (#18,377), « Zimbabwe » (#18,373). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « étendard » est au #18,376. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around étendard (IPA \e.tɑ̃.daʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,376 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for étendard, with forms such as "etendard", "téendard", and "éetndard". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "étendre", "étendra", "étendards", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étendard, spelled É-T-E-N-D-A-R-D.

Definition

1
Drapeau, en particulier militaire et terrestre → voir pavillon pour la marine.
2
Symbole.
3
Pétale supérieur des fleurs de la famille des Fabacées (ou Légumineuses).
4
Meuble représentant le drapeau du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est représenté rectangulaire, accroché à une hampe parfois surmontée d’une pointe de lance et orienté à senestre. À rapprocher de bannière, gonfanon, guidon, oriflamme, pavillon et pennon.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Contre nous, de la tyrannie, l’étendard sanglant est levé.
Il est possible que, dans bien des cas, cet audacieux déploiement d’étendards, par une ville qui avait déjà capitulé, ne fût que le résultat du sans-gêne national, […].

This word in other languages

standard(English)estandarte(Español)Standarte(Deutsch)lábaro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

etendard
téendard
éetndard
étednard
étenadrd
étendadr
étendardd
étendarrd
étenddard
étendrad
étenndard
étnedard
éttendard

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étendard - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "étendard"

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 "étendard"?

"étendard" is spelled É-T-E-N-D-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \e.tɑ̃.daʁ\.

What does "étendard" mean?

As a noun, "étendard" means: Drapeau, en particulier militaire et terrestre → voir pavillon pour la marine.

What words are commonly confused with "étendard"?

"étendard" is commonly confused with "étendre", "étendra", "étendards". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "étendard"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étendard" is \e.tɑ̃.daʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "étendard" come from?

"étendard" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

écoutait#18,375 Zimbabwe#18,373 adjudant#18,381 ajoutées#18,385

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

attentions13 variants brûlures13 variants causalité13 variants changeait13 variants