étymologie
\e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“étymologie” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,377
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science qui étudie l’origine et l’histoire des mots et des locutions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etymologie · étymologie · French
étymologie · rank #18,377 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,377
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étendard
Nearest frequency peer: étendard (-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 « étymologie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- women
women
81,630 corpus weight
- Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
81,628 corpus weight
- écoutait
écoutait
81,626 corpus weight
- étendard
étendard
81,625 corpus weight
- étymologie
étymologie
81,624 corpus weight
- adjudant
adjudant
81,620 corpus weight
What this shows « étymologie » 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 | étymologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étymologie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around étymologie (IPA \e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,377 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for étymologie, with forms such as "etymologie", "téymologie", and "étmyologie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "étymologique", "ethnologie", "entomologie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is étymologie, spelled É-T-Y-M-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science qui étudie l’origine et l’histoire des mots et des locutions.
- 2Origine ou filiation d’un mot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how étymologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Pichon est un imbécile qui n’a pas de protections, qui achète cent francs de bouquins pour faire son livre d’étymologie et qui porte des habits qui nous déshonorent.
Là-dessus arrivèrent les savants, les grammairiens, les pédants, et particulièrement Robert Estienne, avec son dictionnaire de 1540. Robert Estienne était féru de latinité et d’étymologie. Il voulut calquer la langue française sur la latine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etymologie
- téymologie
- étmyologie
- éttymologie
- étymloogie
- étymmologie
- étymolgoie
- étymollogie
- étymologei
- étymologgie
- étymoloige
- étymoolgie
- étyomlogie
- étyymologie
- éytmologie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étymologie - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).