écarlate
\e.kaʁ.lat\
The verdict
“écarlate” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,605. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,605
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colorant de couleur rouge vif, tiré du kermès, un insecte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecarlate · écarlate · French
écarlate · rank #29,605 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,605
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH âpre
Nearest frequency peer: âpre (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « écarlate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- zodiac
zodiac
70,399 corpus weight
- zoologique
zoologique
70,398 corpus weight
- âpre
âpre
70,397 corpus weight
- écarlate
écarlate
70,396 corpus weight
- échangées
échangées
70,395 corpus weight
- échappatoire
échappatoire
70,394 corpus weight
What this shows « écarlate » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écarlate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around écarlate (IPA \e.kaʁ.lat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,605 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écarlate, with forms such as "céarlate", "ecarlate", and "éacrlate". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "éclate", "écarté", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is écarlate, spelled É-C-A-R-L-A-T-E.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écarlate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis un jour plusieurs magistrats nommés lexiarques, qui marchoient dans les rues, tenant une corde teinte d’écarlate, tendue d’une maison à l’autre. Ils poussaient le peuple devant eux, pour l’obliger de se rendre à l’assemblée. Si la corde marquoit de rouge quelque traîneur, il étoit condamné à l’amende.
À Arles, l’archevêque, qui avait le monopole de l’exploitation de la graine d’écarlate, avec laquelle on fabriquait la teinture rouge, ne traitait, pour la vente de ses récoltes, qu’avec les juifs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céarlate
- ecarlate
- éacrlate
- écalrate
- écaralte
- écarlaet
- écarlatte
- écarllate
- écarltae
- écarrlate
- éccarlate
- écralate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écarlate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).