écarter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,101
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
écarter is aFrenchverb. It means: Séparer ; éloigner. Pronounced \e.kaʁ.te\. It ranks #9,101 in French word frequency. Often confused with écarts and égarer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écarter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écarter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kaʁ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,101 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écarter, with forms such as "céarter", "ecarter", and "éacrter". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "écarts", "égarer", "épater", 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 écarter, spelled É-C-A-R-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Séparer ; éloigner.
- 2Détourner.
- 3Rejeter une possibilité de solution, considérée comme inappropriée.
- 4Déployer.
- 5Ne pas projeter son plomb bien serré et bien ensemble, en parlant d'une arme à feu.
- 6Étendre, déployer en long et en large.
- 7Égarer, perdre.
- 8Faire un écart.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céarter,ecarter,éacrter,écaretr,écarrter,écarterr,écartre,écartter,écatrer,éccarter,écrater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "écarter"
Frequency rank: #9,101 in French
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