Étrusques
\e.tʁysk\
The verdict
“Étrusques” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,278
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien peuple sémitique habitant l’Étrurie en Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etrusques · Étrusques · French
Étrusques · rank #44,278 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étalées
Nearest frequency peer: étalées (-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 « Étrusques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- éminente
éminente
55,726 corpus weight
- étalonnage
étalonnage
55,725 corpus weight
- étalées
étalées
55,724 corpus weight
- Étrusques
Étrusques
55,723 corpus weight
- Évry
Évry
55,722 corpus weight
- abominables
abominables
55,720 corpus weight
What this shows « Étrusques » 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 | Étrusques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tʁysk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Étrusques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Étrusques (IPA \e.tʁysk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,278 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancien peuple sémitique habitant l’Étrurie en Italie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Étrusques, with forms such as "etrusques", "térusques", and "értusques". 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, "étrusque", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Étrusques, spelled É-T-R-U-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ancien peuple sémitique habitant l’Étrurie en Italie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Étrusques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Étrusques étaient un peuple sérieusement gai. Ils faisaient des caricatures d’airain. Mais ces marmousets, les uns accablés de leur gros ventre, les autres étonnés de montrer tous leurs os à nu, madame Marmet les regardait avec une admiration douloureuse. Elle les contemplait comme… il y a un mot français très beau que je cherche… comme les monuments…
On assiste depuis quelque temps (par exemple F.Zevi, Demarato, 1994, p. 291 - 314 ; T.J. Cornell, Beginnings, 1995, p. 151-172) à une tentative de « désétrusquiser » la seconde partie de la royauté romaine ; il s’agit de réduire le rôle des Étrusques pour valoriser celui des Grecs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrusques
- térusques
- értusques
- étrrusques
- étrsuques
- étruqsues
- étrusqeus
- étrusqques
- étrusquess
- étrusquse
- étrussques
- étrusuqes
- éttrusques
- étursques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Étrusques - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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