échéance
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,419
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
échéance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terme où échoit le paiement d’une chose due. Pronounced \e.ʃe.ɑ̃s\. It ranks #9,419 in French word frequency. Often confused with échéant and échéances.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échéance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃe.ɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échéance is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃe.ɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,419 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for échéance, with forms such as "céhéance", "echeance", and "écchéance". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "échéant", "échéances", "échéancier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is échéance, spelled É-C-H-É-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme où échoit le paiement d’une chose due.
- 2Terme d’un délai quelconque.
- 3Montant dont le règlement doit être fait à une date donnée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céhéance,echeance,écchéance,échaénce,échhéance,échéacne,échéancce,échéanec,échéannce,échénace,écéhance,éhcéance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for échéance
Misspelling Variants of "échéance"
Frequency rank: #9,419 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter É in our French index: