éclate
\e.klat\
The verdict
“éclate” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,390
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de éclater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclate · éclate · French
éclate · rank #7,390 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,390
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclat
Nearest frequency peer: éclat (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « éclate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vivons
vivons
92,614 corpus weight
- éclat
éclat
92,612 corpus weight
- éclate
éclate
92,611 corpus weight
- élan
élan
92,610 corpus weight
- élire
élire
92,609 corpus weight
- Étienne
Étienne
92,608 corpus weight
What this shows « éclate » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.klat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éclate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around éclate (IPA \e.klat\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,390 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for éclate, with forms such as "célate", "eclate", and "écalte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "élite", "épaté", "écoute", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 éclate, spelled É-C-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de éclater.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de éclater.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de éclater.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de éclater.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de éclater.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éclate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soleil, aussi, ne peut se décider à attendre le lendemain pour reparaître : sa boule rouge, aveuglante, dissipe les nuages, éclate parmi le vert-nil, le jaune-cuivre, le rouge-écarlate.
Aujourd’hui, encore une fois, j’ai une envie terrible que tout casse, pète, s’écrase, s’éventre, s’étripe, dégringole, badaboume, éclate, se dégobille, etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- célate
- eclate
- écalte
- écclate
- éclaet
- éclatte
- écllate
- écltae
- élcate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éclate - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "éclate", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).