écaille
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,611
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
écaille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petites lames minces et plates qui couvrent la peau de certains poissons et de certains reptiles. Pronounced \e.kaj\. Often confused with échelle and éveillé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kaj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écaille is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kaj\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,611 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for écaille, with forms such as "céaille", "ecaille", and "éacille". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "échelle", "éveillé", "entaille", 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 écaille, spelled É-C-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petites lames minces et plates qui couvrent la peau de certains poissons et de certains reptiles.
- 2Enveloppe dure et calcaire qui couvre et protège le corps des mollusques bivalves, notamment les huîtres.
- 3Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs espèces de lépidoptères de la famille des arctidés (Arctiidae).
- 4Enveloppe dure qui couvre le dos de la tortue et dont on faisait de petits objets précieux.
- 5Lamelle microscopique qui couvre les poils et les cheveux.
- 6Partie des os du crâne formant la cavité crânienne.
- 7Productions plates et plus ou moins sèches, qui composent ou accompagnent certaines parties des végétaux.
- 8Lamelles minces et légères qui se détachent de la peau dans certaines affections cutanées.
- 9Nom des ardoises étroites et arrondies dans le bout de la partie visible servant à la couverture des dômes.
- 10Croûte qui se produit sur le fer trop chauffé.
- 11Plaque de cuivre utilisée par les émailleurs pour faire du Bleu de Turquie.
- 12Teinture rouge que les relieurs utilisent pour colorer la tranche des livres.
- 13Écaille de mer : Pierre très dure que l’on utilise pour broyer les pigments.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céaille,ecaille,éacille,écaile,écailel,écalile,éccaille,écialle
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Misspelling Variants of "écaille"
Frequency rank: #37,611 in French
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