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
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de échouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echoua · échoua · French
échoua · rank #41,084 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,084
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échauffe
Nearest frequency peer: échauffe (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « échoua »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- youhou
youhou
58,921 corpus weight
- Youssouf
Youssouf
58,920 corpus weight
- échauffe
échauffe
58,918 corpus weight
- échoua
échoua
58,917 corpus weight
- écoutaient
écoutaient
58,915 corpus weight
- écrivaient
écrivaient
58,914 corpus weight
What this shows « échoua » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échoua »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around échoua (IPA \e.ʃwa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,084 among 1,805 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échoua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La famille Wallenberg, propriétaire de Saab et l’une des principales dynasties financières suédoises, échoua dans ses négociations avec Mazda et Fiat, mais fit finalement affaire avec General Motors à la fin de l’année 1989.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).