extraterrestre

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The French entry for extraterrestre is 14 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,618 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui n’appartient pas au domaine terrestre, qui ne provient pas de la Terre. Créature qui habiterait une autre planète que la Terre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for extraterrestre, with forms such as "etxraterrestre", "exrtaterrestre", and "extarterrestre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "extraterrestres", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 extraterrestre, spelled E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.