ets
\ɛts\
The verdict
“ets” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,541) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,541
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau-forte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ets · ets · French
ets · rank #23,541 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,541
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH excréments
Nearest frequency peer: excréments (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ets”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- entamée
entamée
76,463 corpus weight
- escort
escort
76,462 corpus weight
- ets
ets
76,460 corpus weight
- excréments
excréments
76,459 corpus weight
- excède
excède
76,458 corpus weight
- exemption
exemption
76,457 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ets” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛts\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “ets” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ets is neighbouring look-alikes ("Eu", "ez", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛts\. Frequency #23,541 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Eau-forte.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ets in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Eu", "ez", "EV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ets, spelled E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Eau-forte.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "ets" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Eu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #23,541 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
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.