éthéré
\e.te.ʁe\
The verdict
“éthéré” is uncommon French (frequency #84,467 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,467
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’éther, aux espaces célestes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethere · éthéré · French
éthéré · rank #84,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,467
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étaye
Nearest frequency peer: étaye (-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 « éthéré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épigraphique
épigraphique
15,537 corpus weight
- époustoufla…
époustouflantes
15,536 corpus weight
- étaye
étaye
15,535 corpus weight
- éthéré
éthéré
15,534 corpus weight
- étourdir
étourdir
15,533 corpus weight
- éventrer
éventrer
15,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éthéré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éthéré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.te.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éthéré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éthéré is uncommon French at frequency #84,467 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.te.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
éthéré has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is éthéré, spelled É-T-H-É-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à l’éther, aux espaces célestes.
- 2Qui est ou paraît diaphane, impalpable, immatériel, sublime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éthéré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Astre du jour, brille d’une clarté nouvelle ! ajoute par ton éclat à cette auguste solennité ; dissipe les nuages où se forme la foudre ; que le ciel soit pur, afin que nos chants puissent monter plus librement vers la voûte éthérée !
Ami lecteur, félicitez-moi d’avoir un sylphe aussi commode, qui tout aussi bien que celui du prince des philosophes, de Socrate enfin, me transporte avec autant de facilité, tantôt dans les Champs-Elysées, tantôt dans les régions éthérées...
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).