ethniques
\ɛt.nik\
The verdict
“ethniques” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,151
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ethnique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethniques · ethniques · French
ethniques · rank #10,151 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,151
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ennuis
Nearest frequency peer: ennuis (-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 « ethniques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- emblée
emblée
89,852 corpus weight
- ennuis
ennuis
89,851 corpus weight
- ethniques
ethniques
89,850 corpus weight
- excessive
excessive
89,849 corpus weight
- exclut
exclut
89,848 corpus weight
- expliciteme…
explicitement
89,847 corpus weight
What this shows « ethniques » 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 | ethniques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛt.nik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ethniques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ethniques (IPA \ɛt.nik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,151 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ethnique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ethniques, with forms such as "ehtniques", "ethhniques", and "ethinques". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "éthique", "ethnies", "ethnique", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ethniques, spelled E-T-H-N-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ethnique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ethniques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nouvelle immigration, extrêmement diversifiée sur le plan des origines ethno-nationales, s’installe dans les anciens quartiers ethniques qu’elle contribue ainsi à multi-ethniciser, ou alors gagne de nouvelles banlieues qui sont donc d’emblée multi-ethniques et où règne le conformisme et la neutralité culturelle de l’habitat pavillonnaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtniques
- ethhniques
- ethinques
- ethniqeus
- ethniqques
- ethniquess
- ethniquse
- ethniuqes
- ethnniques
- ethnqiues
- etnhiques
- etthniques
- tehniques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ethniques - 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 "ethniques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).