ecco
\ˈɛk.ko\
The verdict
“ecco” is uncommon French (frequency #82,902 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,902
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voilà.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecco · ecco · French
ecco · rank #82,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,902
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effarouchée
Nearest frequency peer: effarouchée (+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 « ecco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dînent
dînent
17,103 corpus weight
- ecco
ecco
17,099 corpus weight
- effarouchée
effarouchée
17,098 corpus weight
- effrayées
effrayées
17,097 corpus weight
- effroyablem…
effroyablement
17,096 corpus weight
- Ehe
Ehe
17,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ecco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ecco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈɛk.ko\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ecco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ecco is uncommon French at frequency #82,902 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈɛk.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voilà.".
ecco doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ecco, spelled E-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1Voilà.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ecco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ecco il libro che mi hanno prestato.
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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