ethnique
\ɛt.nik\
The verdict
“ethnique” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,959
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une ethnie, ce qui la caractérise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethnique · ethnique · French
ethnique · rank #7,959 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,959
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH fabricants
Nearest frequency peer: fabricants (+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 « ethnique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- démarrer
démarrer
92,047 corpus weight
- ethnique
ethnique
92,042 corpus weight
- fabricants
fabricants
92,041 corpus weight
- festivals
festivals
92,040 corpus weight
- filmer
filmer
92,039 corpus weight
- fonder
fonder
92,038 corpus weight
What this shows « ethnique » 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 | ethnique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛt.nik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ethnique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ethnique (IPA \ɛt.nik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,959 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ethnique, with forms such as "ehtnique", "ethhnique", and "ethinque". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ethniques", "éthylique", "Ethnie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ethnique, spelled E-T-H-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une ethnie, ce qui la caractérise.
- 2Relatif à la différenciation entre des peuples.
- 3Qui appartient à un peuple non occidental.
- 4Relatif à la race.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ethnique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Arabes de la péninsule ne possédaient rien d’autre qu’une homogénéité ethnique et culturelle.
Il était muni de quelques théories ethniques, qui promettaient mathématiquement la première et fallacieuse apparence du succès à la brute disciplinée et grégaire; mais avec autant de nécessité un prompt sursaut donnait la victoire définitive au nerf méditerranéen associé au muscle anglo-saxon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtnique
- ethhnique
- ethinque
- ethniqeu
- ethniqque
- ethniuqe
- ethnnique
- ethnqiue
- etnhique
- etthnique
- tehnique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ethnique - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ethnique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).