étranglent
\e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\
The verdict
“étranglent” is uncommon French (frequency #87,282 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,282
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étrangler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etranglent · étranglent · French
étranglent · rank #87,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,282
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH érogène
Nearest frequency peer: érogène (-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 « étranglent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclates
éclates
12,724 corpus weight
- écrivirent
écrivirent
12,723 corpus weight
- épinettes
épinettes
12,721 corpus weight
- érogène
érogène
12,720 corpus weight
- étranglent
étranglent
12,719 corpus weight
- éveillant
éveillant
12,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étranglent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étranglent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étranglent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étranglent is uncommon French at frequency #87,282 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tʁɑ̃ɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étranglent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 étranglent, spelled É-T-R-A-N-G-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de étrangler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de étrangler.
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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