étreinte
\e.tʁɛ̃t\
The verdict
“étreinte” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,672
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action ou manière de presser entre ses bras et/ou ses mains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etreinte · étreinte · French
étreinte · rank #27,672 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,672
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éther
Nearest frequency peer: éther (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « étreinte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- élit
élit
72,332 corpus weight
- éteints
éteints
72,331 corpus weight
- éther
éther
72,330 corpus weight
- étreinte
étreinte
72,329 corpus weight
- évangélisat…
évangélisation
72,328 corpus weight
- abcès
abcès
72,326 corpus weight
What this shows « étreinte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | étreinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étreinte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around étreinte (IPA \e.tʁɛ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,672 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for étreinte, with forms such as "etreinte", "téreinte", and "érteinte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "étroite", "éteint", "éteinte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 étreinte, spelled É-T-R-E-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Action ou manière de presser entre ses bras et/ou ses mains.
- 2Coït.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étreinte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils n’échangèrent pas de baisers, rien qu’une étreinte où l’amour avait l’innocence attendrie d’une tendresse fraternelle.
Ce texte, je le dédie à ceux et à celles qui, dans la rue, s'étreignent tendrement comme on oppose un monde à un autre. Comme on écrit un horizon qui pourrait bien faire contagion. À ceux et à celles qui savent que l'étreinte, si elle rassure et réconforte, est aussi une façon de s'allier, de former une chaîne, un collectif, une solidarité, un bloc, une s…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etreinte
- téreinte
- érteinte
- éterinte
- étreinet
- étreinnte
- étreintte
- étreitne
- étrenite
- étriente
- étrreinte
- éttreinte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étreinte - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).