Écône
French, proper noun/e.kon/
Écône is spelled É-C-Ô-N-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written French, the 261,491st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écône is a French proper noun meaning “a hamlet in Valais canton, Switzerland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bourg de la commune de Riddes, dans le canton du Valais, en Suisse”.
What does Écône mean in English?
proper noun
- 1
a hamlet in Valais canton, Switzerland
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
proper noun: 1. Bourg de la commune de Riddes, dans le canton du Valais, en Suisse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Écône?
- /e.kon/
- \e.kon\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Écône in French?
Écône appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).