étoffer
\e.tɔ.fe\
The verdict
“étoffer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,530. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,530
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garnir de ce qui est nécessaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etoffer · étoffer · French
étoffer · rank #33,530 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,530
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éponges
Nearest frequency peer: éponges (-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 « étoffer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Élodie
Élodie
66,475 corpus weight
- élogieux
élogieux
66,474 corpus weight
- énervent
énervent
66,473 corpus weight
- éponges
éponges
66,472 corpus weight
- étoffer
étoffer
66,471 corpus weight
- acclamations
acclamations
66,468 corpus weight
What this shows « étoffer » 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 | étoffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɔ.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étoffer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around étoffer (IPA \e.tɔ.fe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,530 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for étoffer, with forms such as "etoffer", "téoffer", and "éotffer". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "étonner", "étouffe", "étouffer", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is étoffer, spelled É-T-O-F-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garnir de ce qui est nécessaire.
- 2Garnir de ce qui est nécessaire.
- 3Garnir de ce qui est nécessaire.
- 4Renforcer, donner de la consistance.
- 5Renforcer, donner de la consistance.
- 6Donner de l'ampleur, du volume.
- 7Donner de l'ampleur, du volume.
- 8Donner de l'ampleur, du volume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étoffer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Embarquer ces volontaires sur des bateaux, […] puis […] les diriger vers le front, où ils étofferaient nos unités.
La couturière n’a pas bien étoffé cette robe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etoffer
- téoffer
- éotffer
- étfofer
- étofefr
- étofer
- étofferr
- étoffre
- éttoffer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étoffer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étoffer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).