échelonner
\eʃ.lɔ.ne\
The verdict
“échelonner” is uncommon French (frequency #79,870 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,870
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Répartir à intervalle régulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echelonner · échelonner · French
échelonner · rank #79,870 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,870
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échassiers
Nearest frequency peer: échassiers (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « échelonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ZF
ZF
20,134 corpus weight
- écervelée
écervelée
20,133 corpus weight
- échassiers
échassiers
20,132 corpus weight
- échelonner
échelonner
20,131 corpus weight
- éclaircis
éclaircis
20,130 corpus weight
- écoulera
écoulera
20,129 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échelonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échelonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \eʃ.lɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échelonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échelonner is uncommon French at frequency #79,870 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \eʃ.lɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for échelonner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is échelonner, spelled É-C-H-E-L-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Répartir à intervalle régulier.
- 2Ranger en échelons.
- 3Graduer.
- 4Établir une échelle de proportions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échelonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le surplus, soit un capital de 4 milliards 25 millions de dollars, la France remit aux États-Unis 62 obligations, datées du 15 juin 1925, et payables au gouvernement des États-Unis ou à son ordre, chacune d'entre elles correspondant à l'une des 62 annuités échelonnées de 1926 à 1988.
[…] les troupes stationnées à la porte Saint-Denis, sous le commandement de M. de Divonne, qui en avait l'avis, ne s'ébranlaient pas ; il fallait, a-t-il dit, du temps pour échelonner les troupes.
This word in other languages
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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