écœurant
\e.kœ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“écœurant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,228
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ec-urant · écœurant · French
écœurant · rank #43,228 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,228
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH édictées
Nearest frequency peer: édictées (+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 “écœurant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- écriteau
écriteau
56,776 corpus weight
- écrivons
écrivons
56,775 corpus weight
- écœurant
écœurant
56,773 corpus weight
- édictées
édictées
56,772 corpus weight
- élancée
élancée
56,771 corpus weight
- élargis
élargis
56,770 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écœurant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around écœurant (IPA \e.kœ.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,228 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écœurant, with forms such as "céœurant", "ecœurant", and "éccœurant". 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, "écoutant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is écœurant, spelled É-C-Œ-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui écœure, au sens propre et au sens figuré.
- 2Qui est bon, admirable.
- 3Qui est délicieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écœurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’atmosphère, échauffée par un foyer sur lequel brûlaient des os de morses, infectée par l’huile fétide d’une lampe, imprégnée des émanations de vêtements gras et de la chair d’amphibie qui forme la nourriture principale des Esquimaux, cette atmosphère était écœurante.
Cependant, le caractère vraiment ornemental et architectural des armoiries, qui ne tolérait pas une représentation des objets sous leur forme parfaitement naturelle, se conserva […] jusqu’au milieu du 16ᵉ [siècle]. Depuis, les bonnes traditions allèrent s’affaiblissant, jusqu’au 19ᵉ qui a été témoin de la décadence complète de cet art vénérable, dont il s…
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 - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écœurant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.