étouffait
\e.tu.fɛ\
The verdict
“étouffait” is uncommon French (frequency #66,452 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,452
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de étouffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etouffait · étouffait · French
étouffait · rank #66,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,452
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épousait
Nearest frequency peer: épousait (-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 « étouffait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émancipe
émancipe
33,552 corpus weight
- épithètes
épithètes
33,551 corpus weight
- épousait
épousait
33,550 corpus weight
- étouffait
étouffait
33,549 corpus weight
- évaluez
évaluez
33,548 corpus weight
- 3F
3F
33,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étouffait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étouffait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tu.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étouffait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étouffait is uncommon French at frequency #66,452 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tu.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de étouffer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for étouffait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 étouffait, spelled É-T-O-U-F-F-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de étouffer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étouffait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui, étouffait, râlait déjà ; tandis qu’elle, la bouche libre, suppliait éperdument qu’on se hâtât, épouvantée, le cœur arraché, à sentir qu’elle le tuait.
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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