écœuré
The verdict
“écœuré” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #46,544 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #46,544
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Qui a perdu le cœur ; à qui le cœur manque ; qui est dégoûté.
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 | écœuré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écœuré” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écœuré is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #46,544 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui a perdu le cœur ; à qui le cœur manque ; qui est dégoûté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for écœuré, with forms such as "céœuré", "ecœure", and "éccœuré". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "écume", "écoute", "écrire", and more, 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 écœuré, spelled É-C-Œ-U-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a perdu le cœur ; à qui le cœur manque ; qui est dégoûté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céœuré,ecœure,éccœuré,écuœré,écœrué,écœurré,écœuér,éœcuré
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écœuré - 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 "écœuré"
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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PlainSpell, “écœuré, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/ec-ure
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Using “écœuré”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-Œ-U-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “écume” - see the side-by-side comparison. écœuré vs écume
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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