écaille de tortue
\e.kaj də tɔʁ.ty\
The verdict
“écaille de tortue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écaille de tortue imbriquée (Eretmochelys imbricata), matière animale utilisée pour la décoration et et la fabrication d’objets précieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecaille-de-tortue · écaille de tortue · French
écaille de tortue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écaille de tortue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kaj də tɔʁ.ty\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écaille de tortue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écaille de tortue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kaj də tɔʁ.ty\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écaille de tortue imbriquée (Eretmochelys imbricata), matière animale utilisée pour la décoration et et la fabrication d’objets précieux.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écaille de tortue, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écaille de tortue, spelled É-C-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -T-O-R-T-U-E.
Definition
- 1Écaille de tortue imbriquée (Eretmochelys imbricata), matière animale utilisée pour la décoration et et la fabrication d’objets précieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écaille de tortue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En fait de produits maritimes, on n’exporte que des écailles de tortue et de la chair de tortue conservée. L’exportation d’écailles de tortue a varié, dans la période de 1874 a 1878, de 1,700 et 4,400 livres par an, ayant une valeur de 439 à 1,224 livres sterling.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.