écolo
\e.kɔ.lo\
The verdict
“écolo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,784
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , (Parfois péjoratif) Écologiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecolo · écolo · French
écolo · rank #16,784 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,784
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écoliers
Nearest frequency peer: écoliers (-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 « écolo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- égouts
égouts
83,215 corpus weight
What this shows « écolo » 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 | écolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écolo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around écolo (IPA \e.kɔ.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,784 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: ", (Parfois péjoratif) Écologiste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for écolo, with forms such as "céolo", "ecolo", and "éccolo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "écope", "écoule", "écolos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 écolo, spelled É-C-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1, (Parfois péjoratif) Écologiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'ancien maire de Saint-Laurent-en-Royans, élu à l'assemblée départementale en 55, fut aussi député (68-73). C'est « l'homme du Royans », difficilement déboulonnable. Pour la campagne de 92, il a joué résolument contre les « écolos empêcheurs de tourner en rond ». L'élection a très bien tourné pour lui (meilleure note de la classe dès le premier tour).
Chez les écolos, l'erreur de distribution n'est pas un accident électoral, c'est une seconde nature. Cette maladresse congénitale finirait par les rendre sympathiques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céolo
- ecolo
- éccolo
- écloo
- écollo
- écool
- éoclo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écolo - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).