échelle
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,940
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
échelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dispositif permettant de monter et descendre, généralement composé de deux montants de bois ou de métal munis de barreaux disposés à intervalles réguliers. Pronounced \e.ʃɛl\. It ranks #1,940 in French word frequency. Often confused with échelon and Estelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échelle is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,940 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for échelle, with forms such as "céhelle", "echelle", and "écchelle". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "échelon", "Estelle", "excelle", 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 échelle, spelled É-C-H-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif permettant de monter et descendre, généralement composé de deux montants de bois ou de métal munis de barreaux disposés à intervalles réguliers.
- 2Dispositif permettant de monter et descendre, généralement composé de deux montants de bois ou de métal munis de barreaux disposés à intervalles réguliers.
- 3Ensemble d’éléments disposés comme les barreaux d’une échelle, en particulier dans les domaines de la couture et de la dentelle.
- 4Proportion de taille entre la représentation d’une chose et la chose représentée.
- 5Échelonnement ou graduation utilisés pour mesurer une grandeur.
- 6Escale, port où il est possible d’embarquer et de débarquer des marchandises.
- 7Niveau, grandeur, proportion.
- 8Niveau, grandeur, proportion.
- 9Niveau, grandeur, proportion.
- 10Dans les jeux de guerre, désigne l’ampleur du conflit simulé.
- 11Discipline acrobatique du cirque.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céhelle,echelle,écchelle,écehlle,échele,échelel,échhelle,échlele,éhcelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for échelle
Misspelling Variants of "échelle"
Frequency rank: #1,940 in French
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