écœurant
\e.kœ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“écœurant” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #43,228 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #43,228
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Qui écœure, au sens propre et au sens figuré.
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 | écœurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kœ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écœurant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écœurant is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kœ.ʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,228 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écœurant, with forms such as "céœurant", "ecœurant", and "éccœurant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "écoutant", 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 écœurant, spelled É-C-Œ-U-R-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui écœure, au sens propre et au sens figuré.
- 2Qui est bon, admirable.
- 3Qui est délicieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céœurant,ecœurant,éccœurant,écuœrant,écœruant,écœuarnt,écœurannt,écœurantt,écœuratn,écœurnat,écœurrant,éœcurant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écœurant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "écœurant"
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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Using “écœurant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-Œ-U-R-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kœ.ʁɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “écoutant” - see the side-by-side comparison. écœurant vs écoutant
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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