échogène
\e.ko.ʒɛn\
The verdict
“échogène” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Qui est opaque sur une image échographique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echogene · échogène · French
échogène · 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 | échogène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ko.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échogène” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
échogène is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.ko.ʒɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est opaque sur une image échographique.".
échogène doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 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. The correct French form is échogène, spelled É-C-H-O-G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est opaque sur une image échographique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échogène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’eau est un matériau échogène, l’air l’est moins.
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