étire
\e.tiʁ\
The verdict
“étire” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,236
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lame métallique (anciennement en pierre) montée sur un manche sur le côté le plus long et qui servait à pratiquer le butage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etire · étire · French
étire · rank #26,236 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,236
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étagères
Nearest frequency peer: étagères (-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 « étire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épiderme
épiderme
73,768 corpus weight
- épis
épis
73,767 corpus weight
- étagères
étagères
73,766 corpus weight
- étire
étire
73,765 corpus weight
- étouffée
étouffée
73,764 corpus weight
- évaporation
évaporation
73,763 corpus weight
What this shows « étire » 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 | étire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around étire (IPA \e.tiʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,236 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "lame métallique (anciennement en pierre) montée sur un manche sur le côté le plus long et qui servait à pratiquer le butage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for étire, with forms such as "etire", "téire", and "éitre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "etre", "étude", "êtres", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is étire, spelled É-T-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1lame métallique (anciennement en pierre) montée sur un manche sur le côté le plus long et qui servait à pratiquer le butage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin vient le blanchissage , qui consiste à unir la peau étalée sur une table en la raclant à l'aide d'une étire, ….
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etire
- téire
- éitre
- étier
- étirre
- étrie
- éttire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étire - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).