étiquette

/\e.ti.kɛt\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,262

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

étiquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit bout de papier (collant ou non) ou de tissu servant à l’identification ou à donner des informations complémentaires comme le prix d’un produit ou la température de lavage d’un vêtement par ex... Pronounced \e.ti.kɛt\. It ranks #6,262 in French word frequency. Often confused with étiquettes and étiqueté.

Key facts for étiquette
PropertyValue
Headwordétiquette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ti.kɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,262
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of étiquette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for étiquette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ti.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,262 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for étiquette, with forms such as "etiquette", "téiquette", and "éitquette". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "étiquettes", "étiqueté", "étiquetage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is étiquette, spelled É-T-I-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit bout de papier (collant ou non) ou de tissu servant à l’identification ou à donner des informations complémentaires comme le prix d’un produit ou la température de lavage d’un vêtement par exemple.
  2. 2
    Appellation générique qui classe la manière de penser, d'agir ou d'être d'une personne, ou d'un groupe de personnes.
  3. 3
    Formes cérémonieuses ou convenances appliquées entre eux par des particuliers, ensemble de règles, protocole.
  4. 4
    Oreille.
  5. 5
    Mot-clef utilisé sur les réseaux sociaux ; le mot-clef est préfixé par un croisillon (signe #, appelé hashtag en anglais).
  6. 6
    Label, société éditrice de musique qui vend des disques et promeut des artistes auteurs-compositeurs.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etiquette,téiquette,éitquette,étiqeutte,étiqquette,étiquete,étiquetet,étiqutete,étiuqette,étqiuette,éttiquette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for étiquette

Misspelling Variants of "étiquette"

etiquette9téiquette9éitquette9étiqeutte9étiqquette10étiquete8étiquetet9étiqutete9
Misspelling Variants of "étiquette"

Frequency rank: #6,262 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étiquette"?
"étiquette" is spelled É-T-I-Q-U-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ti.kɛt\.
What does "étiquette" mean?
As a noun, "étiquette" means: Petit bout de papier (collant ou non) ou de tissu servant à l’identification ou à donner des informations complémentaires comme le prix d’un produit ou la température de lavage d’un vêtement par ex...
What words are commonly confused with "étiquette"?
"étiquette" is commonly confused with "étiquettes", "étiqueté", "étiquetage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "étiquette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étiquette" is \e.ti.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étiquette" come from?
"étiquette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.