écheveau
\e.ʃə.vo\
The verdict
“écheveau” is uncommon French (frequency #72,846 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,846
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblage de fils de chanvre, de soie, de laine, de coton repliés en plusieurs tours, afin qu’ils ne se mêlent pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echeveau · écheveau · French
écheveau · rank #72,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,846
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échappatoires
Nearest frequency peer: échappatoires (-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 « écheveau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yeats
Yeats
27,158 corpus weight
- zeb
zeb
27,157 corpus weight
- échappatoir…
échappatoires
27,156 corpus weight
- écheveau
écheveau
27,155 corpus weight
- échouèrent
échouèrent
27,154 corpus weight
- écomusée
écomusée
27,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écheveau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écheveau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃə.vo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écheveau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écheveau is uncommon French at frequency #72,846 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃə.vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
écheveau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is écheveau, spelled É-C-H-E-V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de fils de chanvre, de soie, de laine, de coton repliés en plusieurs tours, afin qu’ils ne se mêlent pas.
- 2Unité de mesure de longueur désuète, autrefois utilisée en filature.
- 3Ensemble d’éléments confus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écheveau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur des perches partant du haut des greniers, des écheveaux de coton séchaient à l’air.
Or les écheveaux à numéroter à Tourcoing sont généralement d’un dévidage difficile, contrairement à ce qui se passe à Roubaix.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).