extraterrestre
\ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\
The verdict
“extraterrestre” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,618
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’appartient pas au domaine terrestre, qui ne provient pas de la Terre. Créature qui habiterait une autre planète que la Terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extraterrestre · extraterrestre · French
extraterrestre · rank #16,618 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,618
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH excursion
Nearest frequency peer: excursion (-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 « extraterrestre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ever
ever
83,386 corpus weight
- exactitude
exactitude
83,385 corpus weight
- excursion
excursion
83,384 corpus weight
- extraterres…
extraterrestre
83,383 corpus weight
- fabriquées
fabriquées
83,382 corpus weight
- fascistes
fascistes
83,381 corpus weight
What this shows « extraterrestre » 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 | extraterrestre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #16,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extraterrestre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around extraterrestre (IPA \ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,618 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui n’appartient pas au domaine terrestre, qui ne provient pas de la Terre. Créature qui habiterait une autre planète que la Terre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for extraterrestre, with forms such as "etxraterrestre", "exrtaterrestre", and "extarterrestre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "extraterrestres", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 extraterrestre, spelled E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’appartient pas au domaine terrestre, qui ne provient pas de la Terre. Créature qui habiterait une autre planète que la Terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extraterrestre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les philosophes peuvent rire de la simplicité du croyant ; mais ils ne peuvent nier qu’il n’y ait dans ces magnifiques espérances, proposées à tous les fidèles sans distinction de rang, quelque chose de sublime qu’il est impossible de remplacer quand on ferme à l’homme la perspective d’une vie extraterrestre.
Les habitants de South Brewham (Angleterre), ont dû craindre une invasion extraterrestre après avoir confondu les lumières d’un drone avec un ovni.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxraterrestre
- exrtaterrestre
- extarterrestre
- extraetrrestre
- extratererstre
- extraterestre
- extraterresrte
- extraterresstre
- extraterrester
- extraterrestrre
- extraterresttre
- extraterretsre
- extraterrsetre
- extratrerestre
- extratterrestre
- extrraterrestre
- extrtaerrestre
- exttraterrestre
- exxtraterrestre
- xetraterrestre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extraterrestre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).