étuve
\e.tyv\
The verdict
“étuve” is an uncommon French word, ranked #72,861 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,861
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu où l’on élève à volonté la température pour provoquer la transpiration.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étuve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tyv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étuve” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étuve is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tyv\. Corpus data places it at rank #72,861 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for étuve in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is étuve, spelled É-T-U-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où l’on élève à volonté la température pour provoquer la transpiration.
- 2Lieu très chaud.
- 3Lieu dont on élève artificiellement la température pour y faire dessécher différentes substances.
- 4Type de four où l’on enferme des objets pour les désinfecter.
- 5Espace clos conçu pour être maintenu à une température constante.
- 6Tablettes sur lesquelles le confiseur fait sécher les fruits qu'il a préparés.
- 7Endroit pour faire sécher les chapeaux.
- 8Cabinet clos pour connaître l’influence de la température sur les horloges.
- 9Lieu où l’on met à étuver le sucre en pains.
- 10Lieu échauffé dans lequel sont des tonneaux à moitié pleins de vin destinés à aigrir pour faire le vinaigre.
- 11Étuve de corderie, lieu rempli de fourneaux et de chaudières, pour y goudronner les cordages.
- 12Au Moyen-Âge, bain public.
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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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Using “étuve”
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- The one correct French spelling is É-T-U-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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