échéant
French, verb/e.ʃe.ɑ̃/
échéant is spelled É-C-H-É-A-N-T (7 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written French, the 11,366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Échéant is a French verb meaning “present participle of échoir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does échéant mean in English?
verb
- 1
present participle of échoir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui survient, qui arrive. 2. Qui arrive à échéance, dû.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of échéant
- échéants plural masculine
- échéante singular feminine
- échéantes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échéant?
- /e.ʃe.ɑ̃/
- \e.ʃe.ɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is échéant in French?
échéant appears 4.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).