étonnant

adj

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The verdict

“étonnant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,728
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui étonne, qui surprend.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etonnant · étonnant · French

étonnant · rank #3,728 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,728
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH 3e

Nearest frequency peer: 3e (+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 « étonnant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « étonnant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

étonnant vs étonnent
88% similar
étonnant vs étonnante
89% similar
étonnant vs étonnants
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for étonnant
PropertyValue
Headwordétonnant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,728
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étonnant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.étonnantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « 3e » (#3,729), « acquisition » (#3,730), « électriques » (#3,725). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « étonnant » est au #3,728. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around étonnant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,728 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for étonnant, with forms such as "etonnant", "téonnant", and "éotnnant". 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, "étonnent", "étonnante", "étonnants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is étonnant, spelled É-T-O-N-N-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui étonne, qui surprend.
  2. 2
    Qualifie quelqu’un qui est extraordinaire, soit en bien, soit en mal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how étonnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce qui m’émerveillait le plus dans les premiers temps, c'était l’étonnante habileté de nos poneys à se tirer d'affaire au milieu d'un chaos de débris volcaniques où un piéton aurait pu difficilement trouver son chemin.
  2. […], je vis tragiquement émerger de la nuit une étonnante masure en ruines à un étage, aux persiennes vermoulues et closes.

This word in other languages

surprising(English)erstaunlich(Deutsch)extraordinário(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • etonnant
  • téonnant
  • éotnnant
  • étnonant
  • étonannt
  • étonant
  • étonnannt
  • étonnantt
  • étonnatn
  • étonnnat
  • éttonnant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étonnant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

etonnant1téonnant2éotnnant2étnonant2étonannt2étonant1étonnannt1étonnantt1
Edit distance from "étonnant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étonnant"?
"étonnant" is spelled É-T-O-N-N-A-N-T.
What does "étonnant" mean?
As an adjective, "étonnant" means: Qui étonne, qui surprend.
What words are commonly confused with "étonnant"?
"étonnant" is commonly confused with "étonnent", "étonnante", "étonnants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "étonnant" come from?
"étonnant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étonnant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

attendais11 variantschargée11 variantsréservé11 variantsprocédé11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list