écologique

\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\

/\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\/ adj

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The verdict

“écologique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,540
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’écologie ou qui appartient à cette discipline.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ecologique · écologique · French

écologique · rank #4,540 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,540
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH vols

Nearest frequency peer: vols (-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 « écologique »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « écologique » 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).

écologique vs économique
80% similar
écologique vs écologiste
80% similar
écologique vs écologiques
91% similar

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

Key facts for écologique
PropertyValue
Headwordécologique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,540
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écologique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.écologiquese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vols » (#4,539), « éliminer » (#4,541), « vingtaine » (#4,538). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écologique » est au #4,540. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around écologique (IPA \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,540 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for écologique, with forms such as "céologique", "ecologique", and "éccologique". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "économique", "écologiste", "écologiques", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écologique, spelled É-C-O-L-O-G-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne l’écologie ou qui appartient à cette discipline.
  2. 2
    Qui concerne l’environnement naturel ; environnemental.
  3. 3
    Qui est respectueux de l’environnement, qui ne lui nuit pas.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dès lors, l’association à Limnanthemum s’appauvrit au profit d’Hélophytes pourvues d’organes de multiplication végétative […] et de certaines espèces amphibies […] dont la plasticité écologique s’accommode des conditions nouvelles.
  2. La Grande-Bretagne, qui s’est isolée tout récemment, et a des conditions écologiques relativement uniformes, a un endémisme presque nul.

Synonyms

écologiste

This word in other languages

ecological(English)ecológico(Español)ökologisch(Deutsch)ecológico(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • céologique
  • ecologique
  • éccologique
  • écloogique
  • écolgoique
  • écollogique
  • écologgique
  • écologiqeu
  • écologiqque
  • écologiuqe
  • écologqiue
  • écoloigque
  • écoolgique
  • éoclogique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écologique - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

céologique2ecologique1éccologique1écloogique2écolgoique2écollogique1écologgique1écologiqeu2
Edit distance from "écologique"

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 "écologique"?
"écologique" is spelled É-C-O-L-O-G-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\.
What does "écologique" mean?
As an adjective, "écologique" means: Qui concerne l’écologie ou qui appartient à cette discipline.
What words are commonly confused with "écologique"?
"écologique" is commonly confused with "économique", "écologiste", "écologiques". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écologique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écologique" is \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écologique" come from?
"écologique" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

centrales14 variantsmotivation14 variantsdomination14 variantsconstante14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list