échalote
\e.ʃa.lɔt\
The verdict
“échalote” is uncommon French (frequency #55,690 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,690
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante potagère voisine de l’oignon et de l’ail, dont le bulbe est un condiment à la saveur moins forte que ce dernier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echalote · échalote · French
échalote · rank #55,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH zéphyr
Nearest frequency peer: zéphyr (-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 « échalote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- xin
xin
44,314 corpus weight
- zn
zn
44,313 corpus weight
- zéphyr
zéphyr
44,312 corpus weight
- échalote
échalote
44,311 corpus weight
- échappaient
échappaient
44,310 corpus weight
- éclectiques
éclectiques
44,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échalote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échalote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échalote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échalote is uncommon French at frequency #55,690 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃa.lɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for échalote, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is échalote, spelled É-C-H-A-L-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Plante potagère voisine de l’oignon et de l’ail, dont le bulbe est un condiment à la saveur moins forte que ce dernier.
- 2Le nom y est surtout utilisé pour désigner, soit un jeune oignon au bulbe blanc allongé, soit la ciboule (Allium fistulosum, aussi appelée cive, oignon d’Espagne, chiboule, ou ail fistuleux). Il existe une variante nommée échalon.
- 3Anus.
- 4Testicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échalote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On récolte les échalotes lorsque les feuilles jaunissent ; on arrache les plants et on les laisse ressuyer deux ou trois jours sur le sol ; cela fait, on les monte au grenier où on les suspend en paquets.
L’échalote se multiplie de caïeux qui sont mis en terre dès le premier printemps, c'est-à-dire en février-mars. Ces caïeux doivent être bien formés et fermes.
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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