étouffes
\e.tuf\
The verdict
“étouffes” is uncommon French (frequency #98,676 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,676
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de étouffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etouffes · étouffes · French
étouffes · rank #98,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,676
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH étique
Nearest frequency peer: étique (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “étouffes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- équidé
équidé
1,328 corpus weight
- étendirent
étendirent
1,327 corpus weight
- étique
étique
1,326 corpus weight
- étouffes
étouffes
1,325 corpus weight
- Étretat
Étretat
1,324 corpus weight
- éventée
éventée
1,322 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “étouffes” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étouffes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tuf\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étouffes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
étouffes is uncommon French at frequency #98,676 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tuf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for étouffes in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 étouffes, spelled É-T-O-U-F-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de étouffer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de étouffer.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.