ethnologie
\ɛt.nɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“ethnologie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,545. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,545
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude critique et explication des origines, mélanges, migrations des différents peuples.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethnologie · ethnologie · French
ethnologie · rank #28,545 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,545
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esport
Nearest frequency peer: esport (-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 « ethnologie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- errants
errants
71,459 corpus weight
- Erwan
Erwan
71,458 corpus weight
- esport
esport
71,457 corpus weight
- ethnologie
ethnologie
71,456 corpus weight
- exam
exam
71,455 corpus weight
- exhiber
exhiber
71,454 corpus weight
What this shows « ethnologie » 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 | ethnologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛt.nɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ethnologie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ethnologie (IPA \ɛt.nɔ.lɔ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,545 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ethnologie, with forms such as "ehtnologie", "ethhnologie", and "ethnloogie". 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, "étymologie", "ethnologue", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 ethnologie, spelled E-T-H-N-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Étude critique et explication des origines, mélanges, migrations des différents peuples.
- 2Étude des caractères sociaux et culturels des groupes humains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ethnologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On sait combien. l’ethnologie de l'Afghanistan est complexe. Dans un récent travail, le Dr H. W. Bellew a essayé de déterminer l’import de la race grecque dans la population afghane.
Servier connaît bien l’âme de ce pays. Il est le premier Français depuis plus d’un quart de siècle à avoir passé brillamment une thèse sur l’ethnologie des Berbères.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtnologie
- ethhnologie
- ethnloogie
- ethnnologie
- ethnolgoie
- ethnollogie
- ethnologei
- ethnologgie
- ethnoloige
- ethnoolgie
- ethonlogie
- etnhologie
- etthnologie
- tehnologie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ethnologie - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).