ecology
\ɪ.ˈkɒl.ə.dʒi\
The verdict
“ecology” is uncommon French (frequency #78,376 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,376
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecology · ecology · French
ecology · rank #78,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,376
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH efforcée
Nearest frequency peer: efforcée (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ecology »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désertées
désertées
21,630 corpus weight
- désinence
désinence
21,629 corpus weight
- détartrage
détartrage
21,628 corpus weight
- détricoter
détricoter
21,627 corpus weight
- ecology
ecology
21,625 corpus weight
- efforcée
efforcée
21,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ecology » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ecology |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɪ.ˈkɒl.ə.dʒi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ecology » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ecology is uncommon French at frequency #78,376 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɪ.ˈkɒl.ə.dʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écologie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ecology in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 ecology, spelled E-C-O-L-O-G-Y.
Definition
- 1Écologie.
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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