étroitesse
\et.ʁwa.tɛs\
The verdict
“étroitesse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,118
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est étroit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etroitesse · étroitesse · French
étroitesse · rank #38,118 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,118
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étalant
Nearest frequency peer: étalant (-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 « étroitesse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épanouit
épanouit
61,886 corpus weight
- éparses
éparses
61,885 corpus weight
- étalant
étalant
61,884 corpus weight
- étroitesse
étroitesse
61,883 corpus weight
- accabler
accabler
61,881 corpus weight
- accélérant
accélérant
61,880 corpus weight
What this shows « étroitesse » 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 | étroitesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \et.ʁwa.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étroitesse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around étroitesse (IPA \et.ʁwa.tɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,118 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est étroit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for étroitesse, with forms such as "etroitesse", "téroitesse", and "értoitesse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "étroites", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is étroitesse, spelled É-T-R-O-I-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est étroit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étroitesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ou bien, les marées sont nulles spécialement sur ce point du littoral américain, et peut-être pour les mêmes raisons qui les rendent insensibles dans certaines mers resserrées, la Méditerranée entre autres, où le rapprochement des continents riverains et l'étroitesse des pertuis ne donnent pas un accès suffisant aux eaux de l'Atlantique.
On aurait pu croire que le rabbinat du Nord-Est dénué de toute culture générale, détenait le monopole de l'étroitesse d'esprit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etroitesse
- téroitesse
- értoitesse
- étoritesse
- étriotesse
- étroietsse
- étroitese
- étroiteses
- étroitsese
- étroittesse
- étrotiesse
- étrroitesse
- éttroitesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étroitesse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
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