étroit
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,421
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
étroit is anFrenchadj. It means: De petite largeur. Pronounced \e.tʁwa\. It ranks #9,421 in French word frequency. Often confused with extrait and étroite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étroit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \e.tʁwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étroit is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,421 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for étroit, with forms such as "etroit", "téroit", and "értoit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "extrait", "étroite", "étroits", 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 étroit, spelled É-T-R-O-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De petite largeur.
- 2Qualifie une personne dont les vues, les idées ont peu d’étendue et qui se montre intolérante à l’égard de ce qu’elle ne comprend pas.
- 3Restreint, en parlant d'une communauté.
- 4Intime.
- 5Qualifie une situation où l’aisance fait défaut, où les privations sont nécessaires.
- 6Qui est selon la rigueur de la loi, de l’ordre, ou qui n’est pas susceptible d’extension.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etroit,téroit,értoit,étorit,étriot,étroitt,étroti,étrroit,éttroit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "étroit"
Frequency rank: #9,421 in French
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