écervelé
\e.sɛʁ.və.le\
The verdict
“écervelé” is uncommon French (frequency #87,274 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,274
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a peu de jugement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecervele · écervelé · French
écervelé · rank #87,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,274
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échelonnées
Nearest frequency peer: échelonnées (+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 « écervelé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zeman
Zeman
12,731 corpus weight
- zélée
zélée
12,729 corpus weight
- écervelé
écervelé
12,727 corpus weight
- échelonnées
échelonnées
12,726 corpus weight
- éclairants
éclairants
12,725 corpus weight
- éclates
éclates
12,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écervelé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écervelé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.sɛʁ.və.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écervelé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écervelé is uncommon French at frequency #87,274 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.sɛʁ.və.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a peu de jugement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écervelé in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écervelé, spelled É-C-E-R-V-E-L-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a peu de jugement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écervelé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Renée, depuis qu’on négociait son mariage, avait retrouvé son allure d’écervelée, sa tête folle.
Du temps qu'il était ministre, […], quel non initié eût imaginé que Ferry était le salonard écervelé que l'on découvre aujourd'hui ?
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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