écartons
\e.kaʁ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“écartons” is uncommon French (frequency #89,325 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,325
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écarter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecartons · écartons · French
écartons · rank #89,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,325
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH édenté
Nearest frequency peer: édenté (+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 « écartons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ZDF
ZDF
10,680 corpus weight
- zygomatiques
zygomatiques
10,678 corpus weight
- écartons
écartons
10,676 corpus weight
- édenté
édenté
10,675 corpus weight
- éhontés
éhontés
10,674 corpus weight
- élargisseme…
élargissements
10,673 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écartons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écartons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kaʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écartons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écartons is uncommon French at frequency #89,325 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kaʁ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for écartons in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écartons, spelled É-C-A-R-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écarter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de écarter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écartons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ecartons les romans d’anticipation à thèse ouvertement politique, même s’ils sont conduits avec une verve étincelante : ainsi Le meilleur des Mondes d’A. Huxley, cette satire cruelle d’une société soviétisée, « termitisée » plutôt, d’où l’inquiétude est proscrite, dans laquelle l’originalité, la personnalité sont devenues la faute inexpiable, où les indiv…
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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