étonna
\e.tɔ.na\
The verdict
“étonna” is uncommon French (frequency #75,371 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,371
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de étonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etonna · étonna · French
étonna · rank #75,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épisodiques
Nearest frequency peer: épisodiques (-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 « étonna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épagneul
épagneul
24,634 corpus weight
- épandre
épandre
24,633 corpus weight
- épidémiques
épidémiques
24,632 corpus weight
- épisodiques
épisodiques
24,631 corpus weight
- étonna
étonna
24,630 corpus weight
- évitaient
évitaient
24,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étonna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étonna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɔ.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étonna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étonna is uncommon French at frequency #75,371 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɔ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de étonner.".
étonna doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is étonna, spelled É-T-O-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de étonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étonna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais une fois redescendu — dans un état d’énervement qui m’étonna moi-même —, je me trouvai incapable de ranimer le feu et d’y jeter une nouvelle brassée de livres.
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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