école
[e.kɔl]
The verdict
“école” is uncommon German (frequency #77,604 among 273 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,604
- frequency rank, German
- 273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Schule
Corpus desk
Index DE-ecole · école · German
école · rank #77,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,604
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 273
- PHOTO-FINISH ärgerst
Nearest frequency peer: ärgerst (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “école”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- zünftigen
zünftigen
22,401 corpus weight
- ägyptisch
ägyptisch
22,399 corpus weight
- ärgerst
ärgerst
22,398 corpus weight
- école
école
22,397 corpus weight
- Überkapazit…
Überkapazitäten
22,393 corpus weight
- überkommen
überkommen
22,392 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “école” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | école |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [e.kɔl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “école” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
école is uncommon German at frequency #77,604 among 273 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [e.kɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schule".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for école, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is école, spelled É-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Schule
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.