échafauder
\e.ʃa.fo.de\
The verdict
“échafauder” is uncommon French (frequency #76,249 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,249
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dresser des échafaudages, en parlant de la construction ou de la décoration des bâtiments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echafauder · échafauder · French
échafauder · rank #76,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,249
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écarteur
Nearest frequency peer: écarteur (-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 « échafauder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- échoir
échoir
23,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échafauder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échafauder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.fo.de\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échafauder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échafauder is uncommon French at frequency #76,249 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʃa.fo.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for échafauder, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is échafauder, spelled É-C-H-A-F-A-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dresser des échafaudages, en parlant de la construction ou de la décoration des bâtiments.
- 2Bâtir avec précipitation et sans ordre un projet, une théorie, une argumentation qui n’offre pas de caractère solide et durable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échafauder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces journées ont été employées à échafauder pour défaire la voûte du dôme. Il a fallu y appliquer trois échafaudages l’un sur l’autre.
Afin de prolonger mes journées, je couchais sous quelques planches qu’on m’avait prêtées pour m’échafauder contre le rocher, ou bien dans l’écurie, dans la crèche des bœufs.
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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