échue
\e.ʃy\
The verdict
“échue” is uncommon French (frequency #71,200 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,200
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de échoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echue · échue · French
échue · rank #71,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,200
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échangeable
Nearest frequency peer: échangeable (-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 « échue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zombi
zombi
28,804 corpus weight
- échangeable
échangeable
28,802 corpus weight
- échue
échue
28,801 corpus weight
- éclairement
éclairement
28,800 corpus weight
- épigrammes
épigrammes
28,799 corpus weight
- épisodiquem…
épisodiquement
28,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échue is uncommon French at frequency #71,200 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʃy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de échoir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for échue, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is échue, spelled É-C-H-U-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de échoir.
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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