échelons
\eʃ.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“échelons” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,544
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de échelon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echelons · échelons · French
échelons · rank #15,544 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,544
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échappée
Nearest frequency peer: échappée (-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 « échelons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Zeus
Zeus
84,460 corpus weight
- zut
zut
84,459 corpus weight
- échappée
échappée
84,458 corpus weight
- échelons
échelons
84,457 corpus weight
- élargi
élargi
84,456 corpus weight
- éloignées
éloignées
84,455 corpus weight
What this shows « échelons » 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 | échelons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \eʃ.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échelons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around échelons (IPA \eʃ.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,544 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de échelon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for échelons, with forms such as "céhelons", "echelons", and "écchelons". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "échevins", "échelon", "échelles", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is échelons, spelled É-C-H-E-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de échelon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échelons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était comme si elle avait gravi les échelons menant à un plongeoir impossiblement élevé et se trouvait à présent au bord, sachant qu’il ne lui restait qu’un seul moyen de redescendre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhelons
- echelons
- écchelons
- écehlons
- échellons
- échelnos
- échelonns
- échelonss
- échelosn
- écheolns
- échhelons
- échleons
- éhcelons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échelons - 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 "échelons", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).