ethnies
\ɛt.ni\
The verdict
“ethnies” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,006
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ethnie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethnies · ethnies · French
ethnies · rank #21,006 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,006
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estampes
Nearest frequency peer: estampes (-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 « ethnies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- envahisseurs
envahisseurs
78,998 corpus weight
- envisagent
envisagent
78,997 corpus weight
- estampes
estampes
78,996 corpus weight
- ethnies
ethnies
78,995 corpus weight
- explosent
explosent
78,993 corpus weight
- exporte
exporte
78,992 corpus weight
What this shows « ethnies » 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 | ethnies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛt.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ethnies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ethnies (IPA \ɛt.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,006 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ethnie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ethnies, with forms such as "ehtnies", "ethhnies", and "ethines". 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, "étonnes", "étudies", "ethniques", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ethnies, spelled E-T-H-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ethnie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ethnies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Communément appelées “ethnies montagnardes”, les nombreuses minorités habitant les régions montagneuses du Vietnam composent une véritable mosaïque de peuples.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtnies
- ethhnies
- ethines
- ethneis
- ethniess
- ethnise
- ethnnies
- etnhies
- etthnies
- tehnies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ethnies - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).