échouaient
\e.ʃwɛ\
The verdict
“échouaient” is uncommon French (frequency #98,658 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,658
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echouaient · échouaient · French
échouaient · rank #98,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,658
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH écarteurs
Nearest frequency peer: écarteurs (-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 “échouaient”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Zug
Zug
1,346 corpus weight
- zébus
zébus
1,345 corpus weight
- écarteurs
écarteurs
1,344 corpus weight
- échouaient
échouaient
1,343 corpus weight
- éclaboussée
éclaboussée
1,342 corpus weight
- écoresponsa…
écoresponsable
1,340 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “échouaient” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échouaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃwɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échouaient” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
échouaient is uncommon French at frequency #98,658 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʃwɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échouer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for échouaient in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is échouaient, spelled É-C-H-O-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échouer.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 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.