écarlate
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,605
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
écarlate is aFrenchnoun. It means: Colorant de couleur rouge vif, tiré du kermès, un insecte. Pronounced \e.kaʁ.lat\. Often confused with éclate and écarté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écarlate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ.lat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écarlate is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kaʁ.lat\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,605 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écarlate, with forms such as "céarlate", "ecarlate", and "éacrlate". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "éclate", "écarté", 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 écarlate, spelled É-C-A-R-L-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Colorant de couleur rouge vif, tiré du kermès, un insecte.
- 2Étoffe teinte avec ce colorant, ou un de même couleur.
- 3Couleur rouge claire et vive correspondante. #ED0000
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céarlate,ecarlate,éacrlate,écalrate,écaralte,écarlaet,écarlatte,écarllate,écarltae,écarrlate,éccarlate,écralate
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Misspelling Variants of "écarlate"
Frequency rank: #29,605 in French
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