ethnologue
\ɛt.nɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“ethnologue” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,926
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ethnologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethnologue · ethnologue · French
ethnologue · rank #43,926 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,926
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espéranto
Nearest frequency peer: espéranto (-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 « ethnologue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneurial
56,079 corpus weight
- entériner
entériner
56,078 corpus weight
- espéranto
espéranto
56,076 corpus weight
- ethnologue
ethnologue
56,075 corpus weight
- eugénisme
eugénisme
56,073 corpus weight
- Euripide
Euripide
56,072 corpus weight
What this shows « ethnologue » 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 | ethnologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛt.nɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ethnologue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ethnologue (IPA \ɛt.nɔ.lɔɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,926 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ethnologie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ethnologue, with forms such as "ehtnologue", "ethhnologue", and "ethnloogue". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ethnologie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ethnologue, spelled E-T-H-N-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ethnologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ethnologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai rejoint une population qui avait longtemps refusé tout contact pacifique avec l’extérieur et n’avait croisé les premiers missionnaires que peu de temps avant mon arrivée (les ethnologues arrivent toujours après les missionnaires !).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehtnologue
- ethhnologue
- ethnloogue
- ethnnologue
- ethnolgoue
- ethnollogue
- ethnologeu
- ethnologgue
- ethnolouge
- ethnoolgue
- ethonlogue
- etnhologue
- etthnologue
- tehnologue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ethnologue - 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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