étirement
\e.ti.ʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“étirement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,880
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de rendre plus long, d'étendre en amincissant sous l'effet d'une action mécanique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etirement · étirement · French
étirement · rank #48,880 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,880
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éprouvette
Nearest frequency peer: éprouvette (-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 « étirement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- énigmatiques
énigmatiques
51,125 corpus weight
- énumérées
énumérées
51,124 corpus weight
- épargnez
épargnez
51,123 corpus weight
- éprouvette
éprouvette
51,122 corpus weight
- étirement
étirement
51,121 corpus weight
- évacuent
évacuent
51,120 corpus weight
What this shows « étirement » 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 | étirement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ti.ʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étirement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around étirement (IPA \e.ti.ʁə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,880 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for étirement, with forms such as "etirement", "téirement", and "éitrement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "évidement", "évitement", "étirements", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is étirement, spelled É-T-I-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Fait de rendre plus long, d'étendre en amincissant sous l'effet d'une action mécanique.
- 2Fait d'être très allongé.
- 3Fait de déployer ses membres sur des mouvements amples.
- 4Exercice musculaire permettant d’éviter les courbatures.
- 5Fait d'allonger dans le temps, ou dans la conceptualisation de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étirement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Presque toujours, on leur appliquait ces guêtres infernales alors qu'ils étaient en proie aux épouvantables souffrances de l’étirement du corps.
À l’échelle lithosphérique, cette phase active d’extension se traduit en surface par le réseau de failles qui affectent la croûte supérieure cassante, et en profondeur, dans la couche ductile de la base de la croûte par un étirement (ou stretching) provoquant un amincissement général de la croûte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etirement
- téirement
- éitrement
- étierment
- étireemnt
- étiremennt
- étirementt
- étiremetn
- étiremment
- étiremnet
- étirmeent
- étirrement
- étriement
- éttirement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étirement - 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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Same letter count
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