écologie

\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\

/\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\/ noun

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The verdict

“écologie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,092. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,092
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la biologie qui étudie les relations et les interactions entre un organisme vivant et son milieu de vie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ecologie · écologie · French

écologie · rank #5,092 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,092
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH your

Nearest frequency peer: your (-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 « écologie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « écologie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

écologie vs economie
63% similar
écologie vs écologique
80% similar
écologie vs écologiste
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for écologie
PropertyValue
Headwordécologie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,092
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écologie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).écologiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « your » (#5,091), « édifice » (#5,093), « vus » (#5,090). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écologie » est au #5,092. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around écologie (IPA \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,092 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écologie, with forms such as "céologie", "ecologie", and "éccologie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "economie", "écologique", "écologiste", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écologie, spelled É-C-O-L-O-G-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie de la biologie qui étudie les relations et les interactions entre un organisme vivant et son milieu de vie.
  2. 2
    Étude des relations entre l’être humain considéré comme être social et le milieu socio-économique dans lequel il évolue.
  3. 3
    Environnement.
  4. 4
    Équilibre naturel menacé par l'activité humaine.
  5. 5
    Écologisme

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how écologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pour commencer, on pourrait enseigner l'écologie - la science des interactions entre les organismes dans un milieu - dans le secondaire, pour que chacun entrevoie les conséquences de ses actions sur l'environnement.
  2. Et toi qui t’intéresses à l’écologie, tu connais pas l’agent orange de l’armée américaine ?

Synonyms

mésologieécologisme

This word in other languages

ecology(English)ecología(Español)Ökologie(Deutsch)ecologia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • céologie
  • ecologie
  • éccologie
  • écloogie
  • écolgoie
  • écollogie
  • écologei
  • écologgie
  • écoloige
  • écoolgie
  • éoclogie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écologie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

céologie2ecologie1éccologie1écloogie2écolgoie2écollogie1écologei2écologgie1
Edit distance from "écologie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écologie"?
"écologie" is spelled É-C-O-L-O-G-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\.
What does "écologie" mean?
As a noun, "écologie" means: Partie de la biologie qui étudie les relations et les interactions entre un organisme vivant et son milieu de vie.
What words are commonly confused with "écologie"?
"écologie" is commonly confused with "economie", "écologique", "écologiste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écologie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écologie" is \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écologie" come from?
"écologie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écologie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

variable#5,086afficher#5,099soixante#5,078Cameroun#5,110

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

établit11 variantsconnaitre11 variantsraconté11 variantsdéfauts11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list