étroites
\e.tʁwat\
The verdict
“étroites” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,586
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de étroit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etroites · étroites · French
étroites · rank #14,586 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,586
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étonnerait
Nearest frequency peer: étonnerait (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « étroites »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étaler
étaler
85,417 corpus weight
- étonnerait
étonnerait
85,416 corpus weight
- étroites
étroites
85,415 corpus weight
- évoquée
évoquée
85,414 corpus weight
- abaisser
abaisser
85,412 corpus weight
- abattus
abattus
85,411 corpus weight
What this shows « étroites » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étroites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.tʁwat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étroites »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around étroites (IPA \e.tʁwat\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,586 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de étroit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for étroites, with forms such as "etroites", "téroites", and "értoites". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "étroits", "extraites", "étroitesse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is étroites, spelled É-T-R-O-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de étroit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étroites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Modelée comme un tanagra, statuette de chair aux petits seins pointus, hanches étroites et jambes fines, vive et souple, Lizzie inspirait un chaud désir, tempéré de tendres égards.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etroites
- téroites
- értoites
- étorites
- étriotes
- étroiets
- étroitess
- étroitse
- étroittes
- étroties
- étrroites
- éttroites
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étroites - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "étroites", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).