étrier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,137
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
étrier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacun des anneaux ovales, de fer ou d’autre métal, suspendus de chaque côté de la selle par une courroie appelée étrivière et qui servent à supporter le pied du cavalier. Pronounced \e.tʁi.je\. Often confused with évier and expier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étrier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tʁi.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,137 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for étrier, with forms such as "etrier", "térier", and "értier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "évier", "expier", "étudier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is étrier, spelled É-T-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacun des anneaux ovales, de fer ou d’autre métal, suspendus de chaque côté de la selle par une courroie appelée étrivière et qui servent à supporter le pied du cavalier.
- 2Tout dispositif semblable dont la fonction est d’appuyer le pied.
- 3Nom donné aux parties d’un objet dont la forme rappelle celle d’un étrier.
- 4Bandage dont on se sert pour les plaies du pied.
- 5Appareil métallique utiliser pour mettre en tension des broches qui traversent l'os.
- 6Ancienne dénomination du stapes, n des trois os (osselets) de l’oreille moyenne.
- 7Pièce de fer en forme d’étrier, qu’on emploie pour soutenir une poutre.
- 8Pièce qui réunit en leur centre des lames de ressort de suspension.
- 9Support en forme d’étrier servant de support ou d’attache à un objet.
- 10Pièce mécanique mobile participant au freinage d’un véhicule, et dont la forme rappelle celle d’un étrier.
- 11Petite échelle souple, faite d’échelons métalliques reliés par de la cordelette.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrier,térier,értier,étreir,étrierr,étrire,étrrier,éttrier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for étrier
Misspelling Variants of "étrier"
Frequency rank: #37,137 in French
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