ethnographie
\ɛt.nɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“ethnographie” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,283. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,283
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méthode descriptive des sciences sociales consistant à observer et à décrire, sur le terrain, les modes de vie, pratiques et représentations d’un groupe humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethnographie · ethnographie · French
ethnographie · rank #38,283 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,283
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essayage
Nearest frequency peer: essayage (-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 « ethnographie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- escompte
escompte
61,721 corpus weight
- escroqueries
escroqueries
61,720 corpus weight
- essayage
essayage
61,719 corpus weight
- ethnographie
ethnographie
61,718 corpus weight
- Euler
Euler
61,717 corpus weight
- examinent
examinent
61,716 corpus weight
What this shows « ethnographie » 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 | ethnographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛt.nɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #38,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ethnographie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around ethnographie (IPA \ɛt.nɔ.ɡʁa.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,283 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for ethnographie, with forms such as "ehtnographie", "ethhnographie", and "ethngoraphie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ethnographique", "échographie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ethnographie, spelled E-T-H-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Méthode descriptive des sciences sociales consistant à observer et à décrire, sur le terrain, les modes de vie, pratiques et représentations d’un groupe humain.
- 2Le rapport ou l’étude résultant de ce travail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ethnographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de moins étonnant, dès lors, que de retrouver notre infatigable voyageur visitant de 1855 à 1857 tout l'ouest du Tibet en compagnie des frères Schlagintweit, et rapportant de cette exploration de curieuses observations d'ethnographie.
Il est certain que les représentations iconographiques ou littéraires permettent de mettre en lumière une ethnographie parisienne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtnographie
- ethhnographie
- ethngoraphie
- ethnnographie
- ethnogarphie
- ethnoggraphie
- ethnograhpie
- ethnographei
- ethnographhie
- ethnograpihe
- ethnograpphie
- ethnogrpahie
- ethnogrraphie
- ethnorgaphie
- ethongraphie
- etnhographie
- etthnographie
- tehnographie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ethnographie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).