écale
\e.kal\
The verdict
“écale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enveloppe charnue qui couvre la coque des noix et des amandes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecale · écale · French
écale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | écale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
écale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for écale, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is écale, spelled É-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe charnue qui couvre la coque des noix et des amandes.
- 2Gousse des pois, des fèves, des haricots.
- 3Coquille d’œuf.
- 4Portion de soie dont les fils sont contenus par une gomme blanche et légère.
- 5Carapace de crevette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pont était sali par des écales de noix, des bouts de cigares, des pelures de poires, des détritus de charcuterie apportée dans du papier […].
Pour récolter les amandes attendez que l'écale soit ouverte et sèche.
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.