Étretat
\e.tʁə.tɑ\
The verdict
“Étretat” is uncommon French (frequency #98,677 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,677
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etretat · Étretat · French
Étretat · rank #98,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH étouffes
Nearest frequency peer: étouffes (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Étretat”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- étendirent
étendirent
1,327 corpus weight
- étique
étique
1,326 corpus weight
- étouffes
étouffes
1,325 corpus weight
- Étretat
Étretat
1,324 corpus weight
- éventée
éventée
1,322 corpus weight
- éviteras
éviteras
1,321 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Étretat” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Étretat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁə.tɑ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Étretat” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Étretat is uncommon French at frequency #98,677 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.tʁə.tɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Étretat in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Étretat, spelled É-T-R-E-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Étretat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Aiguille d’Étretat est creuse !
En face d’eux, au-delà d’un grand verger clos de murs, et parmi des plaines tout ensoleillées de colza, une dépression leur permettait de voir, à droite, la ligne blanche des hautes falaises jusqu’à Fécamp ; à gauche, la baie d’Étretat, la porte d’Aval et la pointe de l’énorme Aiguille.
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 "Étretat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.