écart
The verdict
“écart” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,232 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,232
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Action par laquelle deux parties d’une chose s’écartent plus ou moins l’une de l’autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écart” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écart is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,232 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. 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 écart, with forms such as "céart", "ecart", and "éacrt". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "état", "était", "étant", 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 écart, spelled É-C-A-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle deux parties d’une chose s’écartent plus ou moins l’une de l’autre.
- 2Entorse de l’articulation antérieure du cheval, du bœuf, etc.
- 3Action de s’éloigner (de la direction qu’on doit suivre).
- 4Variations qui se produisent dans un mécanisme.
- 5Action de s’écarter de la raison, de la morale ou des bienséances.
- 6Différence, retard, intervalle, etc.
- 7Valeur absolue de la différence entre deux valeurs.
- 8Valeur absolue d’une différence.
- 9Localité éloignée de l’agglomération principale d’une commune, moins importante qu’un hameau« Glossaire de cartographie », dans le Bulletin du Comité français de cartographie, mars-juin 1990, p. nᵒˢ 123-124, Paris (2ᵉ édition), ouvrage placé sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 et intégré au Wiktionnaire grâce à un don du Comité français de cartographie..
- 10Ce que l’on rejette des chambres des vers à soie.
- 11Sur un marché d’instruments financiers, écart mesuré en taux d’intérêt entre les conditions qu’obtiendraient pour des opérations similaires des émetteurs différents.
- 12Mouvement latéral brutal et incontrôlé d'un cheval pendant une course.
- 13Un split, résultat obtenu quand le premier lancer abat les quilles centrales séparant en deux les quilles restantes. Voir aussi Split (bowling).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céart,ecart,éacrt,écarrt,écartt,écatr,éccart,écrat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écart — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "écart"
Frequency rank: #3,232 in French
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Using “écart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-A-R-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “état” — see the side-by-side comparison. écart vs état
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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