étoupe
\e.tup\
The verdict
“étoupe” is uncommon French (frequency #80,811 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,811
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie la plus grossière de la filasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etoupe · étoupe · French
étoupe · rank #80,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,811
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étiole
Nearest frequency peer: étiole (-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 « étoupe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épluchures
épluchures
19,193 corpus weight
- étatisation
étatisation
19,192 corpus weight
- étiole
étiole
19,191 corpus weight
- étoupe
étoupe
19,190 corpus weight
- évaluateurs
évaluateurs
19,189 corpus weight
- œnologue
œnologue
19,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étoupe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étoupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tup\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étoupe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étoupe is uncommon French at frequency #80,811 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tup\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for étoupe in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 étoupe, spelled É-T-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1Partie la plus grossière de la filasse.
- 2Morceau de ce textile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étoupe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chevaux dont on se sert sont des rosses de réforme que l’on achète à bas prix. Avant d’entrer dans l’arène, de peur que les cris de la multitude et que la vue des taureaux ne les effarouchent, on leur bande les yeux et l’on emplit leurs oreilles d’étoupes mouillées.
Avec une palette en bois mince, on fait tomber la chènevotte broyée, et il ne reste plus qu'à peigner la filasse ainsi mise à nu. On la divise ordinairement en deux qualités ; la plus pure est le brin, la plus grossière est l’étoupe.
This word in other languages
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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