échec

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for échec is 5 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,306 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Attaque sur le roi, au jeu d’échecs, de sorte qu’il est obligé de se retirer ou de se couvrir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for échec, with forms such as "céhec", "echec", and "écchec". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "echo", "élec", "échos", 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 échec, spelled É-C-H-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.