étouffez
\e.tu.fe\
The verdict
“étouffez” is uncommon French (frequency #91,327 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,327
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étouffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etouffez · étouffez · French
étouffez · rank #91,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,327
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH étudieront
Nearest frequency peer: étudieront (+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 “étouffez”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- élabora
élabora
8,680 corpus weight
- émigrée
émigrée
8,677 corpus weight
- éprouvants
éprouvants
8,676 corpus weight
- étouffez
étouffez
8,674 corpus weight
- étudieront
étudieront
8,673 corpus weight
- évolutionni…
évolutionnisme
8,672 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “étouffez” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étouffez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tu.fe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étouffez” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
étouffez is uncommon French at frequency #91,327 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tu.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for étouffez, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 étouffez, spelled É-T-O-U-F-F-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étouffer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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.