écœurement
\e.kœʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“écœurement” is uncommon French (frequency #93,416 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,416
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’être écœuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ec-urement · écœurement · French
écœurement · rank #93,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,416
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écru
Nearest frequency peer: écru (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « écœurement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échevelée
échevelée
6,588 corpus weight
- échouerait
échouerait
6,587 corpus weight
- écru
écru
6,586 corpus weight
- écœurement
écœurement
6,585 corpus weight
- égorgent
égorgent
6,584 corpus weight
- égorgeurs
égorgeurs
6,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écœurement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écœurement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kœʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écœurement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écœurement is uncommon French at frequency #93,416 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kœʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait d’être écœuré.".
écœurement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is écœurement, spelled É-C-Œ-U-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Fait d’être écœuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écœurement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne dirai pas tout ce que l'on réserve d'écœurement aux pauvres consultants que l'on parque dans des salles d'attente [aux consultations gratuites des hôpitaux],
D’écœurement, de dégoût et d’indigestion, Tintin vomit tripes et boyaux et faillit en crever pendant la nuit.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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