écoliers
\e.kɔ.lje\
The verdict
“écoliers” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,783. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,783
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de écolier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoliers · écoliers · French
écoliers · rank #16,783 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,783
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH éclairée
Nearest frequency peer: éclairée (-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 “écoliers”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Zelda
Zelda
83,221 corpus weight
- zèle
zèle
83,220 corpus weight
- éclairée
éclairée
83,219 corpus weight
- écoliers
écoliers
83,218 corpus weight
- écolo
écolo
83,217 corpus weight
- égards
égards
83,216 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écoliers” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | écoliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écoliers” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around écoliers (IPA \e.kɔ.lje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,783 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de écolier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoliers, with forms such as "céoliers", "ecoliers", and "éccoliers". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "éoliens", "escaliers", "écoles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 écoliers, spelled É-C-O-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écolier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écoliers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, l’après-midi du jeudi 25 mai, les écoliers de Lanteuil, accompagnés de leurs deux maîtresses, ont joué les apprentis jardiniers, en profitant des conseils prodigués par André Delpy, connaisseur en la matière.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoliers
- ecoliers
- éccoliers
- écloiers
- écoilers
- écoleirs
- écolierrs
- écolierss
- écoliesr
- écolires
- écolliers
- éocliers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoliers - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écoliers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.