économe
\e.kɔ.nɔm\
The verdict
“économe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,820
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une personne qui évite de dépenser de l’argent inutilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-econome · économe · French
économe · rank #24,820 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,820
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Yvette
Nearest frequency peer: Yvette (-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 « économe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ye
ye
75,183 corpus weight
- Yvette
Yvette
75,182 corpus weight
- économe
économe
75,181 corpus weight
- égalitaire
égalitaire
75,180 corpus weight
- élaborées
élaborées
75,179 corpus weight
- éloquence
éloquence
75,178 corpus weight
What this shows « économe » 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 | économe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « économe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around économe (IPA \e.kɔ.nɔm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,820 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for économe, with forms such as "céonome", "econome", and "écconome". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "éponyme", "economy", "economie", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is économe, spelled É-C-O-N-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une personne qui évite de dépenser de l’argent inutilement.
- 2Avare, frugal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how économe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autrefois pourtant cet homme n’était qu’un père de famille économe, chez qui ses voisins venaient diner, apprendre l’épargne, la bonne administration.
Devenez radin ! Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières « Être économe c’est très bien, surtout si vos parents l’ont été pour vous ! » disait Winston Churchill.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céonome
- econome
- écconome
- écnoome
- éconmoe
- éconnome
- éconoem
- économme
- écoonme
- éocnome
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of économe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "économe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).