étreintes
\e.tʁɛ̃t\
The verdict
“étreintes” is uncommon French (frequency #63,476 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,476
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de étreindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etreintes · étreintes · French
étreintes · rank #63,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,476
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étrave
Nearest frequency peer: étrave (-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 « étreintes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- 2ième
2ième
36,522 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étreintes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étreintes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tʁɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étreintes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étreintes is uncommon French at frequency #63,476 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tʁɛ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de étreindre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for étreintes, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is étreintes, spelled É-T-R-E-I-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel de étreindre.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).