écolier
\e.kɔ.lje\
The verdict
“écolier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,872
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élève des universités ; étudiant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecolier · écolier · French
écolier · rank #30,872 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,872
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclore
Nearest frequency peer: éclore (-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 « écolier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Zacharie
Zacharie
69,131 corpus weight
- éclore
éclore
69,130 corpus weight
- écolier
écolier
69,129 corpus weight
- éditoriaux
éditoriaux
69,128 corpus weight
- égarés
égarés
69,127 corpus weight
- éminence
éminence
69,126 corpus weight
What this shows « écolier » 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 | écolier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écolier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around écolier (IPA \e.kɔ.lje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,872 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for écolier, with forms such as "céolier", "ecolier", and "éccolier". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "éolien", "écouter", "évoluer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is écolier, spelled É-C-O-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Élève des universités ; étudiant.
- 2Celui qui étudie à l’école maternelle ou primaire, qui suit les petites classes d’un collège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écolier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; et personne ne sera de votre avis, parce que personne ne vous comprendra, si ce n'est vos écoliers, qui jurent ordinairement in verba magistri, et qui ergotisent, comme leurs maîtres, tantôt sur le froid, tantôt sur le chaud, sans trop savoir pourquoi.
Henri, voulez-vous que je vous dise une chose ? reprit Marguerite en regardant fixement le duc, c’est que vous ne me faites plus l’effet d’un prince, mais d’un écolier ! Moi nier que je vous ai aimé !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céolier
- ecolier
- éccolier
- écloier
- écoiler
- écoleir
- écolierr
- écolire
- écollier
- éoclier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écolier - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).