étourderie
\e.tuʁ.də.ʁi\
The verdict
“étourderie” is uncommon French (frequency #79,882 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,882
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’étourdi ; habitude de faire des actions d’étourdi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etourderie · étourderie · French
étourderie · rank #79,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,882
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étatiste
Nearest frequency peer: étatiste (-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 « étourderie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émirati
émirati
20,123 corpus weight
- érode
érode
20,122 corpus weight
- étalait
étalait
20,121 corpus weight
- étatiste
étatiste
20,120 corpus weight
- étourderie
étourderie
20,119 corpus weight
- évaluons
évaluons
20,118 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étourderie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étourderie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tuʁ.də.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étourderie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étourderie is uncommon French at frequency #79,882 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tuʁ.də.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’étourdi ; habitude de faire des actions d’étourdi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for étourderie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is étourderie, spelled É-T-O-U-R-D-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’étourdi ; habitude de faire des actions d’étourdi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étourderie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut avouer que vous avez commis là une grosse étourderie qui, nous l’espérons, ne se renouvellera plus.
D’Alembert donna un signe d’impatience ; mais l’homme de cour, qui avait une égale dose d’étourderie et de présomption, n’en continua pas moins.
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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