étymologies
\e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“étymologies” is uncommon French (frequency #70,342 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,342
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de étymologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etymologies · étymologies · French
étymologies · rank #70,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,342
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étrennes
Nearest frequency peer: étrennes (-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 « étymologies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épie
épie
29,664 corpus weight
- épigénétique
épigénétique
29,663 corpus weight
- épiphénomène
épiphénomène
29,662 corpus weight
- étiquetée
étiquetée
29,661 corpus weight
- étrennes
étrennes
29,660 corpus weight
- étymologies
étymologies
29,659 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « étymologies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étymologies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « étymologies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
étymologies is uncommon French at frequency #70,342 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de étymologie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for étymologies in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 étymologies, spelled É-T-Y-M-O-L-O-G-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de étymologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étymologies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il « araméise » (ou « syriaquise ») complètement un grand nombre de mots et de passages coraniques en les ramenant à des étymologies qui remonteraient à l’araméen et au syriaque, langues sémitiques qui sont effectivement apparentées à l’arabe.
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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