échevinage
\e.ʃ(ə).vi.naʒ\
The verdict
“échevinage” is uncommon French (frequency #95,478 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,478
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonction d’échevin
Corpus desk
Index FR-echevinage · échevinage · French
échevinage · rank #95,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,478
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échancrée
Nearest frequency peer: échancrée (-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 « échevinage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zaho
Zaho
4,526 corpus weight
- échancrée
échancrée
4,524 corpus weight
- échevinage
échevinage
4,523 corpus weight
- économisera…
économiserait
4,522 corpus weight
- écorchures
écorchures
4,521 corpus weight
- écrirez
écrirez
4,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échevinage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échevinage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃ(ə).vi.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échevinage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échevinage is uncommon French at frequency #95,478 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃ(ə).vi.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for échevinage, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is échevinage, spelled É-C-H-E-V-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Fonction d’échevin
- 2Exercice de fonction d’échevin ou corps des échevins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échevinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelque bourgeois y a gravé les insignes de sa noblesse de cloches, la gloire de son échevinage oublié.
Synonyms
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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