étroitesse d’esprit
\e.tʁwa.tɛs dɛs.pʁi\
The verdict
“étroitesse d’esprit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fait d’être, caractère étroit d’esprit, borné.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étroitesse d’esprit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁwa.tɛs dɛs.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étroitesse d’esprit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étroitesse d’esprit is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tʁwa.tɛs dɛs.pʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fait d’être, caractère étroit d’esprit, borné.".
étroitesse d’esprit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is étroitesse d’esprit, spelled É-T-R-O-I-T-E-S-S-E- -D-’-E-S-P-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1fait d’être, caractère étroit d’esprit, borné.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-T-R-O-I-T-E-S-S-E- -D-’-E-S-P-R-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.