etre
\e.ˈtreː\
The verdict
“etre” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,412) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,412
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etre · etre · French
etre · rank #1,412 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,412
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envoyé
Nearest frequency peer: envoyé (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « etre »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dites
dites
98,592 corpus weight
- entrer
entrer
98,591 corpus weight
- envoyé
envoyé
98,590 corpus weight
- etre
etre
98,589 corpus weight
- festival
festival
98,588 corpus weight
- jeudi
jeudi
98,587 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « etre » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | etre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \e.ˈtreː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « etre »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for etre is neighbouring look-alikes ("eve", "eur", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \e.ˈtreː\. Frequency #1,412 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Entre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for etre, with forms such as "erte", "eter", and "ettre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eve", "eur", "eue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is etre, spelled E-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Entre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how etre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Etre an dimeziñ hag an eured (an embannou hag an dimeziñ) e vez an diaoul o redeg.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erte
- eter
- ettre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of etre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "etre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).