éthique
\e.tik\
The verdict
“éthique” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,202
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la morale, ce qui est moral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethique · éthique · French
éthique · rank #4,202 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,202
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH énergétique
Nearest frequency peer: énergétique (-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 « éthique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- windows
windows
95,802 corpus weight
- world
world
95,801 corpus weight
- énergétique
énergétique
95,800 corpus weight
- éthique
éthique
95,799 corpus weight
- Alternative
Alternative
95,798 corpus weight
- amène
amène
95,797 corpus weight
What this shows « éthique » 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 | éthique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éthique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around éthique (IPA \e.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,202 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la morale, ce qui est moral.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for éthique, with forms such as "ethique", "téhique", and "éhtique". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "ethnique", "éthiques", "ethniques", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 éthique, spelled É-T-H-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la morale, ce qui est moral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éthique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour nous éveiller et poursuivre ce cheminement heureux, nous pourrions inventer notre habitat essentiel, notre caractère. C'est ce que nous rappelle la double étymologie du mot éthique : ethos, qui signifie « habitudes, mœurs », et êthos, qui désigne l'antre, la demeure ou le caractère.
Cette Antigone voyoute pourrait courir toutefois le risque d'énoncer un univers d’indifférenciation où l'ordre légal et la transgression s’égaleraient sur un seuil éthique au-delà du bien et du mal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ethique
- téhique
- éhtique
- éthhique
- éthiqeu
- éthiqque
- éthiuqe
- éthqiue
- étihque
- étthique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éthique - 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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).