échéance
\e.ʃe.ɑ̃s\
The verdict
“échéance” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,419
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme où échoit le paiement d’une chose due.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echeance · échéance · French
échéance · rank #9,419 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,419
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écarts
Nearest frequency peer: écarts (-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 « échéance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Watson
Watson
90,585 corpus weight
- yes
yes
90,584 corpus weight
- écarts
écarts
90,583 corpus weight
- échéance
échéance
90,582 corpus weight
- éclairer
éclairer
90,581 corpus weight
- étroit
étroit
90,580 corpus weight
What this shows « échéance » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échéance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around échéance (IPA \e.ʃe.ɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,419 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for échéance, with forms such as "céhéance", "echeance", and "écchéance". 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 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is échéance, spelled É-C-H-É-A-N-C-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échéance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu'on se rappelle les nécessités terribles, les terribles échéances où chaque fin de mois l'accule ; l'huissier à ses trousses, sa mère qui le harcèle, l'avenir engagé.
— Nous verrons bien la valeur de vos promesses quand elles seront arrivées à échéance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhéance
- echeance
- écchéance
- échaénce
- échhéance
- échéacne
- échéancce
- échéanec
- échéannce
- échénace
- écéhance
- éhcéance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échéance - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "échéance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).