écopent
\e.kɔp\
The verdict
“écopent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,335 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,335
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écoper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecopent · écopent · French
écopent · rank #90,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,335
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH économisera
Nearest frequency peer: économisera (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écopent”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- éclataient
éclataient
9,670 corpus weight
- économisera
économisera
9,667 corpus weight
- écopent
écopent
9,666 corpus weight
- égalisent
égalisent
9,665 corpus weight
- égratigne
égratigne
9,663 corpus weight
- élira
élira
9,662 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écopent” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écopent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kɔp\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écopent” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
écopent is uncommon French at frequency #90,335 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for écopent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 écopent, spelled É-C-O-P-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écoper.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de écoper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écopent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils sont tous les deux reconnus coupables et écopent de six mois de prison avec sursis, 1 000 euros de dommages et intérêts et sont désormais inscrits au Fichier judiciaire automatisé des auteurs d’infractions sexuelles.
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 "écopent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.