écholocation
\e.ko.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“écholocation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méthode par laquelle certains animaux peuvent visualiser leur environnement en émettant des ondes sonores et en analysant leurs échos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echolocation · écholocation · French
écholocation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | écholocation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ko.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écholocation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écholocation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ko.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for écholocation, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écholocation, spelled É-C-H-O-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Méthode par laquelle certains animaux peuvent visualiser leur environnement en émettant des ondes sonores et en analysant leurs échos.
- 2Collecte d’informations sur un environnement en analysant l’écho que les obstacles renvoient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écholocation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les êtres vivants qui utilisent l’écholocation (comme les chauves-souris, les baleines et les marsouins) obtiennent des informations sur la taille, la localisation et le mouvement des objets en émettant […]
Cet animal s'oriente dans l’espace par écholocation : il émet des sons de très haute fréquence et utilise l’écho renvoyé par les obstacles ou les proies pour les localiser.
Synonyms
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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.