échiquier
The verdict
“échiquier” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #16,039 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,039
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Tableau sur lequel on joue aux échecs et qui est divisé en plusieurs carrés ou cases de deux couleurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échiquier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃi.kje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échiquier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échiquier is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃi.kje\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,039 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for échiquier, with forms such as "céhiquier", "echiquier", and "écchiquier". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is échiquier, spelled É-C-H-I-Q-U-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tableau sur lequel on joue aux échecs et qui est divisé en plusieurs carrés ou cases de deux couleurs.
- 2Manière de planter les arbres, afin que leur disposition offre plusieurs carrés rangés comme ceux d’un échiquier.
- 3Terrain, emplacement sur lequel s’exécutent des manœuvres stratégiques ou ordre de marche des armées navales.
- 4Se dit d’un ordre de marche d’une armée navale, qui consiste à faire courir les vaisseaux de telle manière à ce que leurs trajectoires se croisent.
- 5Filet carré soutenu par deux demi-cerceaux qui se croisent au milieu, auquel est attachée une perche, et dont on se sert pour pêcher de petits poissons. On dit aussi « carrelet ».
- 6Juridiction normande où l’on décidait souverainement des différends importants entre les particuliers. Voir aussi Échiquier.
- 7Synonyme de demi-deuil ou d’hespérie du brome (papillons).
- 8Instrument utilisé par les fabricants de vitraux.
- 9Lieu ou cadre dans lequel se déroulent des luttes, se dessinent des rivalités, assez complexes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céhiquier,echiquier,écchiquier,échhiquier,échiqiuer,échiqquier,échiqueir,échiquierr,échiquire,échiuqier,échqiuier,écihquier,éhciquier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échiquier — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "échiquier"
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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Using “échiquier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-I-Q-U-I-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ʃi.kje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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