étourdir

\e.tuʁ.diʁ\

/\e.tuʁ.diʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“étourdir” is uncommon French (frequency #84,468 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,468
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper soudainement d’une commotion cérébrale qui suspend la fonction des sens.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etourdir · étourdir · French

étourdir · rank #84,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,468
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH éthéré

Nearest frequency peer: éthéré (-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 “étourdir”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “étourdir” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for étourdir
PropertyValue
Headwordétourdir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.tuʁ.diʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#84,468
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “étourdir” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). étourdir lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

étourdir is uncommon French at frequency #84,468 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tuʁ.diʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for étourdir, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 étourdir, spelled É-T-O-U-R-D-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Frapper soudainement d’une commotion cérébrale qui suspend la fonction des sens.
  2. 2
    Importuner ; fatiguer ; lasser.
  3. 3
    Rendre presque ivre.
  4. 4
    Abasourdir, hébéter.
  5. 5
    Endormir une douleur physique, empêcher qu’elle ne soit aussi sensible.
  6. 6
    Faire que l’esprit soit moins occupé d’une souffrance morale, en soit distrait.
  7. 7
    Faire subir une légère cuisson à une viande.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how étourdir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il lui donna sur la tête un coup de bâton qui l’étourdit.
  2. Il tomba tout étourdi du coup.

This word in other languages

daze(English)aturdir(Español)

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "étourdir"?
"étourdir" is spelled É-T-O-U-R-D-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \e.tuʁ.diʁ\.
What does "étourdir" mean?
As a verb, "étourdir" means: Frapper soudainement d’une commotion cérébrale qui suspend la fonction des sens.
How do you pronounce "étourdir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "étourdir" is \e.tuʁ.diʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "étourdir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "étourdir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

éventrer#84,470éventrée#84,471égrènent#84,453affréter#84,485

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list