échoua
\e.ʃwa\
The verdict
“échoua” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,084. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,084
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de échouer.
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 | échoua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échoua” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around échoua (IPA \e.ʃwa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,084 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de échouer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for échoua, with forms such as "céhoua", "echoua", and "écchoua". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "écrou", "échoue", "écroué", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 échoua, spelled É-C-H-O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de échouer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhoua
- echoua
- écchoua
- échhoua
- échoau
- échuoa
- écohua
- éhcoua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échoua - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “échoua”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-O-U-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ʃwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “écrou” - see the side-by-side comparison. échoua vs écrou
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.