échouer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,699
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
échouer is aFrenchverb. It means: Donner sur le sable, sur un écueil et y stationner plus ou moins longtemps, en parlant d’une embarcation voire d’un cétacé ou de poissons. Pronounced \e.ʃwe\. Often confused with écroué and écouter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃwe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échouer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃwe\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,699 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for échouer, with forms such as "céhouer", "echouer", and "écchouer". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "écroué", "écouter", "écouler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is échouer, spelled É-C-H-O-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner sur le sable, sur un écueil et y stationner plus ou moins longtemps, en parlant d’une embarcation voire d’un cétacé ou de poissons.
- 2Ne pas réussir dans les affaires, les entreprises, les tentatives qu’on entreprend, connaître l’insuccès.
- 3Suivi de la préposition à, ne pas réussir une épreuve, un test, un examen.
- 4Faire reposer sur le sable une embarcation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céhouer,echouer,écchouer,échhouer,échoeur,échouerr,échoure,échuoer,écohuer,éhcouer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "échouer"
Frequency rank: #12,699 in French
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Nearby French words
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