échanson
\e.ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“échanson” is uncommon French (frequency #81,708 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,708
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier qui était chargé de servir à boire dans une cour divine, royale ou princière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echanson · échanson · French
échanson · rank #81,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,708
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échancrure
Nearest frequency peer: échancrure (-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 « échanson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zooey
Zooey
18,296 corpus weight
- zététique
zététique
18,295 corpus weight
- échancrure
échancrure
18,294 corpus weight
- échanson
échanson
18,293 corpus weight
- éclatez
éclatez
18,292 corpus weight
- écologisme
écologisme
18,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échanson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échanson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échanson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échanson is uncommon French at frequency #81,708 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for échanson in our index, 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is échanson, spelled É-C-H-A-N-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Officier qui était chargé de servir à boire dans une cour divine, royale ou princière.
- 2Celui qui sert à boire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échanson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux des plus humbles fils de notre mère l’Église ! répéta Wamba intérieurement, […] ; je voudrais voir ses sénéchaux, ses grands échansons et ses autres principaux.
Vous êtes un échanson bien maladroit.
Synonyms
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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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