éternité
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,776
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
éternité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Durée qui n’a ni commencement ni fin. Pronounced \e.tɛʁ.ni.te\. It ranks #7,776 in French word frequency. Often confused with étroite and éteinte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éternité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tɛʁ.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for éternité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,776 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for éternité, with forms such as "eternite", "téernité", and "éetrnité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "étroite", "éteinte", "émérite", 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 éternité, spelled É-T-E-R-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Durée qui n’a ni commencement ni fin.
- 2Durée qui a un commencement, mais qui n’aura pas de fin.
- 3Temps qui semble durer trop longtemps.
- 4Caractère de ce qui est éternel.
- 5La vie éternelle après la mort.
- 6Meuble représenté par un serpent en anneau se mordant la queue dans certaines armoiries. Cette terminologie du blason n’est utilisée que par quelques auteurs à titre symbolique. À « éternité » on préfère généralement le terme d'ouroboros ou ourobore.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eternite,téernité,éetrnité,étenrité,éterinté,éternitté,éterniét,éternnité,éterntié,éterrnité,étrenité,étternité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for éternité
Misspelling Variants of "éternité"
Frequency rank: #7,776 in French
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