écholalie
French, noun/e.kɔ.la.li/
écholalie is spelled É-C-H-O-L-A-L-I-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écholalie is a French feminine noun meaning “echolalia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Répétition systématique de tout ou partie des phrases de l’interlocuteur en guise de réponse orale”.
What does écholalie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineecholalia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Répétition systématique de tout ou partie des phrases de l’interlocuteur en guise de réponse orale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of écholalie
- écholalies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écholalie?
- /e.kɔ.la.li/
- \e.ko.la.li\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écholalie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écholalie in French?
écholalie appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).