échauffe
\e.ʃof\
The verdict
“échauffe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,083
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étuve destinée aux cuirs, pour leur faire perdre leurs poils et pour permettre aux matières grasses de pénétrer le cuir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echauffe · échauffe · French
échauffe · rank #41,083 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #41,083
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échoua
Nearest frequency peer: échoua (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « échauffe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Yasmine
Yasmine
58,922 corpus weight
- youhou
youhou
58,921 corpus weight
- Youssouf
Youssouf
58,920 corpus weight
- échauffe
échauffe
58,918 corpus weight
- échoua
échoua
58,917 corpus weight
- écoutaient
écoutaient
58,915 corpus weight
What this shows « échauffe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échauffe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃof\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échauffe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around échauffe (IPA \e.ʃof\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,083 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for échauffe, with forms such as "céhauffe", "echauffe", and "écahuffe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "échauffer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is échauffe, spelled É-C-H-A-U-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1Étuve destinée aux cuirs, pour leur faire perdre leurs poils et pour permettre aux matières grasses de pénétrer le cuir.
- 2Action de mettre les cuirs dans cette étuve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échauffe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En sortant de l’échauffe, les peaux sont débourrées, passées en rivière, écharnées, puis portées dans la basserie, où elles éprouvent des bassements bien gradués; on leur fait subir ensuite un refaisage et enfin elles sont mises en fosse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhauffe
- echauffe
- écahuffe
- écchauffe
- échafufe
- échaufe
- échaufef
- échhauffe
- échuaffe
- éhcauffe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échauffe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).