étrennes
\e.tʁɛn\
The verdict
“étrennes” is uncommon French (frequency #70,341 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,341
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de étrenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etrennes · étrennes · French
étrennes · rank #70,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,341
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étiquetée
Nearest frequency peer: étiquetée (-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 « étrennes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épie
épie
29,664 corpus weight
- épigénétique
épigénétique
29,663 corpus weight
- épiphénomène
épiphénomène
29,662 corpus weight
- étiquetée
étiquetée
29,661 corpus weight
- étrennes
étrennes
29,660 corpus weight
- étymologies
étymologies
29,659 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étrennes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étrennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étrennes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étrennes is uncommon French at frequency #70,341 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de étrenne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for étrennes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is étrennes, spelled É-T-R-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de étrenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étrennes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Varennes, terre natale de Marcel Arland, on maudissait les Harpagon et grippe-sous par cette formule : Ci-gît, dessous ce rocher blanc Le plus avare de Varennes Qui trépassa le dernier jour de l'an De peur de donner des étrennes.
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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