étirent
\e.tiʁ\
The verdict
“étirent” is uncommon French (frequency #61,251 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,251
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etirent · étirent · French
étirent · rank #61,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,251
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éternuement
Nearest frequency peer: éternuement (-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 « étirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éradiquée
éradiquée
38,753 corpus weight
- étancher
étancher
38,752 corpus weight
- éternuement
éternuement
38,751 corpus weight
- étirent
étirent
38,750 corpus weight
- étoit
étoit
38,749 corpus weight
- étourdissem…
étourdissements
38,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étirent is uncommon French at frequency #61,251 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for étirent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is étirent, spelled É-T-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étirer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de étirer.
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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