étole
\e.tɔl\
The verdict
“étole” is uncommon French (frequency #57,040 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,040
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ornement sacerdotal qui consiste dans une bande d’étoffe, chargée de trois croix et qui descend du cou jusqu’aux pieds.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etole · étole · French
étole · rank #57,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,040
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étiage
Nearest frequency peer: étiage (-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 « étole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épurer
épurer
42,963 corpus weight
- étiage
étiage
42,962 corpus weight
- étole
étole
42,961 corpus weight
- évertue
évertue
42,960 corpus weight
- évolutifs
évolutifs
42,959 corpus weight
- œillet
œillet
42,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tɔl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étole is uncommon French at frequency #57,040 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for étole in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is étole, spelled É-T-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ornement sacerdotal qui consiste dans une bande d’étoffe, chargée de trois croix et qui descend du cou jusqu’aux pieds.
- 2Accessoire de mode, souvent en fourrure, ayant la forme d’une étole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis passèrent trois vieux chantres dont l'un boitait, puis le serpent, puis le curé soulevant de son ventre pointu l'étole dorée, croisée dessus.
Faut-il vous rappeler maintenant que la liturgie assigne à tous les vêtements, à tous les ornements de l’Église, un sens différent, selon leur usage et selon leur forme ? C’est ainsi, par exemple, que le surplis et l’aube signalent l’innocence ; […] ; l’étole : l’obéissance, le vêtement d’immortalité que nous rendit le baptême ; […].
This word in other languages
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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