écarteur
\e.kaʁ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“écarteur” is uncommon French (frequency #76,248 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,248
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans une course de taureaux, de vaches sauvages, personne qui s’écarte pour éviter l’attaque de l’animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecarteur · écarteur · French
écarteur · rank #76,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH zon
Nearest frequency peer: zon (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « écarteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zinzins
zinzins
23,756 corpus weight
- zircon
zircon
23,755 corpus weight
- zon
zon
23,754 corpus weight
- écarteur
écarteur
23,753 corpus weight
- échafauder
échafauder
23,752 corpus weight
- échelonnée
échelonnée
23,751 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écarteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écarteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écarteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écarteur is uncommon French at frequency #76,248 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kaʁ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for écarteur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 écarteur, spelled É-C-A-R-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Dans une course de taureaux, de vaches sauvages, personne qui s’écarte pour éviter l’attaque de l’animal.
- 2Celui qui prend le quart d’une récolte qui doit être partagée.
- 3Instrument qui écarte les deux bords d'une incision, qui dilate certains orifices naturels ou canaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écarteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Écarteur chirurgical.
Le légiste et le Dr Cavalier étaient en train de découper l’une des bottes à l’aide d’un costotome et d’un écarteur à deux griffes.
This word in other languages
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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