étrave
\et.ʁav\
The verdict
“étrave” is uncommon French (frequency #63,475 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,475
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce centrale de bois ou de fer où viennent s’assembler les pièces qui forment l’avant, la proue d’un navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etrave · étrave · French
étrave · rank #63,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,475
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH équivalait
Nearest frequency peer: équivalait (-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 « étrave »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Épicure
Épicure
36,530 corpus weight
- équine
équine
36,528 corpus weight
- équivalait
équivalait
36,527 corpus weight
- étrave
étrave
36,526 corpus weight
- étreintes
étreintes
36,525 corpus weight
- œillères
œillères
36,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étrave » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étrave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \et.ʁav\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étrave » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étrave is uncommon French at frequency #63,475 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \et.ʁav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce centrale de bois ou de fer où viennent s’assembler les pièces qui forment l’avant, la proue d’un navire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étrave, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étrave, spelled É-T-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce centrale de bois ou de fer où viennent s’assembler les pièces qui forment l’avant, la proue d’un navire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étrave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mât de beaupré s’appuie sur l’étrave.
La longueur d’un navire se mesure de l’étrave à l’étambot.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).