étonnant
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,728
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
étonnant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui étonne, qui surprend. It ranks #3,728 in French word frequency. Often confused with étonnent and étonnante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étonnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étonnant is 8 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #3,728 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for étonnant, with forms such as "etonnant", "téonnant", and "éotnnant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "étonnent", "étonnante", "étonnants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is étonnant, spelled É-T-O-N-N-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui étonne, qui surprend.
- 2Qualifie quelqu’un qui est extraordinaire, soit en bien, soit en mal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etonnant,téonnant,éotnnant,étnonant,étonannt,étonant,étonnannt,étonnantt,étonnatn,étonnnat,éttonnant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for étonnant
Misspelling Variants of "étonnant"
Frequency rank: #3,728 in French
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