échevins
\ɛʃ.vɛ̃\
The verdict
“échevins” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,613
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de échevin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echevins · échevins · French
échevins · rank #37,613 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,613
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échangeant
Nearest frequency peer: échangeant (-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 « échevins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écaille
écaille
62,390 corpus weight
- échangeant
échangeant
62,389 corpus weight
- échevins
échevins
62,388 corpus weight
- éclaircit
éclaircit
62,387 corpus weight
- émaillée
émaillée
62,386 corpus weight
- émotionnell…
émotionnelles
62,385 corpus weight
What this shows « échevins » 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 | échevins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʃ.vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échevins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around échevins (IPA \ɛʃ.vɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,613 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de échevin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for échevins, with forms such as "céhevins", "echevins", and "écchevins". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "échevin", "échelons", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is échevins, spelled É-C-H-E-V-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de échevin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échevins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les échevins de la ville l’ont sollicité pour penser et conduire la double entrée royale de 1533, dont Scève s’inspira directement en 1548 : du promontoire d’Ainay, la nouvelle reine, Éléonore d’Autriche, et le dauphin François pouvaient voir Saône et Rhône s’« entraccoler » doucement ; c’est de cette manière que, dans la fontaine conçue par Scève en 1548…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhevins
- echevins
- écchevins
- écehvins
- écheivns
- échevinns
- échevinss
- échevisn
- échevnis
- échevvins
- échhevins
- échveins
- éhcevins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échevins - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "échevins", 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).