étiez

\e.tje\

/\e.tje\/ verb

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The verdict

“étiez” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,154
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de être.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etiez · étiez · French

étiez · rank #6,154 · 7 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,154
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH éteint

Nearest frequency peer: éteint (-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 « étiez »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « étiez » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

étiez vs etre
40% similar
étiez vs êtres
40% similar
étiez vs évier
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for étiez
PropertyValue
Headwordétiez
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.tje\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,154
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étiez »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).étiezse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « éteint » (#6,153), « évolue » (#6,155), « 4e » (#6,157). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « étiez » est au #6,154. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around étiez (IPA \e.tje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,154 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de être.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for étiez, with forms such as "etiez", "téiez", and "éitez". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "etre", "êtres", "évier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is étiez, spelled É-T-I-E-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de être.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how étiez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous sortons du cas où l’article défini reste au substantif désapposé, avec ce texte-ci : « lorsque vous étiez à Mouffetard (1)… (1) Caserne d’infanterie située dans la rue qui porte ce nom », Mémoires d’un Forçat, 1829, t. II, p. 155.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • etiez
  • téiez
  • éitez
  • éteiz
  • étiezz
  • étize
  • éttiez

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étiez - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

etiez1téiez2éitez2éteiz2étiezz1étize2éttiez1
Edit distance from "étiez"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étiez"?
"étiez" is spelled É-T-I-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \e.tje\.
What does "étiez" mean?
As a verb, "étiez" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de être.
What words are commonly confused with "étiez"?
"étiez" is commonly confused with "etre", "êtres", "évier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "étiez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étiez" is \e.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étiez" come from?
"étiez" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étiez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

adoré#6,159verbe#6,146story#6,139prêté#6,129

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

mètre7 variantsgroup7 variantsindex7 variantsisolé7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list