échouant
\e.ʃwɑ̃\
The verdict
“échouant” is uncommon French (frequency #60,493 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,493
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de échouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echouant · échouant · French
échouant · rank #60,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,493
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échauffent
Nearest frequency peer: échauffent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « échouant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zouave
zouave
39,511 corpus weight
- ânerie
ânerie
39,510 corpus weight
- échauffent
échauffent
39,509 corpus weight
- échouant
échouant
39,508 corpus weight
- écrirais
écrirais
39,507 corpus weight
- égratignures
égratignures
39,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échouant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échouant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃwɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échouant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échouant is uncommon French at frequency #60,493 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʃwɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de échouer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for échouant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is échouant, spelled É-C-H-O-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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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