étron
\e.tʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“étron” is uncommon French (frequency #59,040 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,040
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière fécale consistante et moulée de certains animaux, dont l’humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etron · étron · French
étron · rank #59,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,040
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étalages
Nearest frequency peer: étalages (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « étron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épineuses
épineuses
40,965 corpus weight
- érigent
érigent
40,964 corpus weight
- établissez
établissez
40,963 corpus weight
- étalages
étalages
40,962 corpus weight
- étron
étron
40,961 corpus weight
- Abner
Abner
40,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étron is uncommon French at frequency #59,040 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.tʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for étron in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is étron, spelled É-T-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Matière fécale consistante et moulée de certains animaux, dont l’humain.
- 2Personne méprisable, sans valeur.
- 3Insulte humoristique envers un motocycliste en qualifiant sa machine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il reparut ensuite, suivi lentement et majestueusement par le reste du saucisson qui constituait un des plus beaux étrons qu’un gros intestin eût jamais produit.
Mais surtout, le caganer porterait chance à la famille qui le place sous le sapin : en fertilisant la terre de son saint étron, il assurerait au foyer paix, santé et abondance pour l’année qui suit.
This word in other languages
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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