échouage
\e.ʃwaʒ\
The verdict
“échouage” is uncommon French (frequency #74,492 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,492
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de faire échouer une embarcation ou résultat de cette action, dans les deux cas de manière volontaire. On pratique par exemple l’échouage sur une plage de sable pour caréner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echouage · échouage · French
échouage · rank #74,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,492
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH éblouissants
Nearest frequency peer: éblouissants (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “échouage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Yunus
Yunus
25,513 corpus weight
- Zita
Zita
25,511 corpus weight
- éblouissants
éblouissants
25,510 corpus weight
- échouage
échouage
25,509 corpus weight
- économisent
économisent
25,508 corpus weight
- électoralis…
électoralisme
25,505 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “échouage” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échouage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃwaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échouage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
échouage is uncommon French at frequency #74,492 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃwaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de faire échouer une embarcation ou résultat de cette action, dans les deux cas de manière volontaire. On pratique par exemple l’échouage sur une plage de sable pour caréner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for échouage in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is échouage, spelled É-C-H-O-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de faire échouer une embarcation ou résultat de cette action, dans les deux cas de manière volontaire. On pratique par exemple l’échouage sur une plage de sable pour caréner.
This word in other languages
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "échouage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.