échoués

\e.ʃwe\

/\e.ʃwe\/ verb

The verdict

“échoués” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,113
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de échouer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-echoues · échoués · French

échoués · rank #47,113 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,113
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH échoppes

Nearest frequency peer: échoppes (-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 “échoués”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “échoués” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

échoués vs écoles
57% similar
échoués vs écroué
71% similar
échoués vs écoutes
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for échoués
PropertyValue
Headwordéchoués
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.ʃwe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#47,113
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Où “échoués” se place dans la fréquence du français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).échouésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « échoppes » (#47,112), « échéancier » (#47,114), « échoppe » (#47,111). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around échoués (IPA \e.ʃwe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,113 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de échouer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for échoués, with forms such as "céhoués", "echoues", and "écchoués". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "écoles", "écroué", "écoutes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 échoués, spelled É-C-H-O-U-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel de échouer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • céhoués
  • echoues
  • écchoués
  • échhoués
  • échousé
  • échouéss
  • échoéus
  • échuoés
  • écohués
  • éhcoués

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échoués - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

céhoués2echoues2écchoués1échhoués1échousé2échouéss1échoéus2échuoés2
Edit distance from "échoués"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "échoués"?
"échoués" is spelled É-C-H-O-U-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ʃwe\.
What does "échoués" mean?
As a verb, "échoués" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de échouer.
What words are commonly confused with "échoués"?
"échoués" is commonly confused with "écoles", "écroué", "écoutes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "échoués"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "échoués" is \e.ʃwe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "échoués" come from?
"échoués" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "échoués", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

What to do next

You've looked up "échoués". Here's where to go from here.

  • "échoués" maps to 11 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "écoles". View pair
  • 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
  • Usage frequency rank #47,113 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
  • Browse more French words in the "É" letter cohort. É–Z browse

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list