échasses
\e.ʃas\
The verdict
“échasses” is uncommon French (frequency #57,700 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,700
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de échasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echasses · échasses · French
échasses · rank #57,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,700
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éblouit
Nearest frequency peer: éblouit (-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 « échasses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zus
zus
42,304 corpus weight
- éblouit
éblouit
42,302 corpus weight
- échasses
échasses
42,301 corpus weight
- éclatait
éclatait
42,299 corpus weight
- éclosent
éclosent
42,298 corpus weight
- économisez
économisez
42,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échasses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échasses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échasses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échasses is uncommon French at frequency #57,700 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de échasse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for échasses, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is échasses, spelled É-C-H-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de échasse.
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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