étourneaux
\e.tuʁ.no\
The verdict
“étourneaux” is uncommon French (frequency #86,354 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,354
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de étourneau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etourneaux · étourneaux · French
étourneaux · rank #86,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,354
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH étourdissante
Nearest frequency peer: étourdissante (-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 “étourneaux”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- épatée
épatée
13,651 corpus weight
- établirons
établirons
13,649 corpus weight
- étourdissan…
étourdissante
13,648 corpus weight
- étourneaux
étourneaux
13,647 corpus weight
- évasives
évasives
13,646 corpus weight
- évitais
évitais
13,644 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “étourneaux” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étourneaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tuʁ.no\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étourneaux” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
étourneaux is uncommon French at frequency #86,354 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tuʁ.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de étourneau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for étourneaux in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is étourneaux, spelled É-T-O-U-R-N-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de étourneau.
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 10 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.