étiage
\e.tjaʒ\
The verdict
“étiage” is uncommon French (frequency #57,039 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,039
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus grand abaissement des eaux d’une rivière. Niveau le plus bas d’un cours d’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etiage · étiage · French
étiage · rank #57,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,039
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épurer
Nearest frequency peer: épurer (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « étiage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Épinay
Épinay
42,965 corpus weight
- épurer
épurer
42,963 corpus weight
- étiage
étiage
42,962 corpus weight
- étole
étole
42,961 corpus weight
- évertue
évertue
42,960 corpus weight
- évolutifs
évolutifs
42,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étiage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étiage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tjaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étiage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étiage is uncommon French at frequency #57,039 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tjaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
étiage has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is étiage, spelled É-T-I-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Plus grand abaissement des eaux d’une rivière. Niveau le plus bas d’un cours d’eau.
- 2Niveau le plus bas de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étiage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paganel, dans la matinée du 21, constata que l’élévation des eaux, au-dessus de l’étiage, commençait à diminuer.
Les crues commencent sur la Petite-Seine en amont de Montereau quand les eaux atteignent la hauteur de 1ᵐ 50 au-dessus de l’étiage ; la navigation cesse ordinairement quand l'eau dépasse 2ᵐ 20.
This word in other languages
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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