écervelée
\e.sɛʁ.və.le\
The verdict
“écervelée” is uncommon French (frequency #79,868 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,868
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui a peu de jugement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecervelee · écervelée · French
écervelée · rank #79,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,868
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH ZF
Nearest frequency peer: ZF (-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 « écervelée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zenon
Zenon
20,135 corpus weight
- ZF
ZF
20,134 corpus weight
- écervelée
écervelée
20,133 corpus weight
- échassiers
échassiers
20,132 corpus weight
- échelonner
échelonner
20,131 corpus weight
- éclaircis
éclaircis
20,130 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écervelée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écervelée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɛʁ.və.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écervelée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écervelée is uncommon French at frequency #79,868 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.sɛʁ.və.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui a peu de jugement.".
écervelée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 écervelée, spelled É-C-E-R-V-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui a peu de jugement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écervelée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Vendée, ses parents la considéraient comme une brebis galeuse, une écervelée qui s’était sottement jetée dans les bras de la canaille jacobine.
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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