écarter
\e.kaʁ.te\
The verdict
“écarter” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,101
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séparer ; éloigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecarter · écarter · French
écarter · rank #9,101 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,101
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH who
Nearest frequency peer: who (-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 « écarter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- walker
walker
90,904 corpus weight
- was
was
90,903 corpus weight
- watch
watch
90,902 corpus weight
- who
who
90,901 corpus weight
- écarter
écarter
90,900 corpus weight
- épicerie
épicerie
90,899 corpus weight
What this shows « écarter » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écarter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around écarter (IPA \e.kaʁ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,101 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écarter, spelled É-C-A-R-T-E-R.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écarter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les oratoriens et les jésuites, ennemis et adversaires naturels, firent d'abord cause commune pour écarter les carmes de la direction de ces religieuses.
Solange lisait et elle ne leva pas les veux lorsque son prétendu écarta la portière du petit salon.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céarter
- ecarter
- éacrter
- écaretr
- écarrter
- écarterr
- écartre
- écartter
- écatrer
- éccarter
- écrater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écarter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).