échevine
\e.ʃ(ə)vin\
The verdict
“échevine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme membre du collège communal chargée d’un domaine de l’administration communale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echevine · échevine · French
échevine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échevine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃ(ə)vin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échevine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échevine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃ(ə)vin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
échevine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is échevine, spelled É-C-H-E-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme membre du collège communal chargée d’un domaine de l’administration communale.
- 2Adjointe au maire, conseillère municipale représentant un quartier donné.
- 3Épouse d’un échevin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échevine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Véronique Salvi, échevine des Affaires sociales de la ville belge de Charleroi, veut régler la mendicité.
Louis, pour mieux fourvoyer son cousin, se mit à décocher à la belle échevine, force œillades assassines et billets galans, où il dépeignait sa flamme royale de manière à attendrir un cœur moins charitable que l’était celui de la dame.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.