écorce
\e.kɔʁs\
The verdict
“écorce” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,316
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie superficielle et protectrice des arbres et plus généralement des plantes ligneuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecorce · écorce · French
écorce · rank #17,316 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,316
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Yvon
Nearest frequency peer: Yvon (-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 “écorce”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- yorkais
yorkais
82,687 corpus weight
- Yvon
Yvon
82,686 corpus weight
- écorce
écorce
82,685 corpus weight
- équilibrer
équilibrer
82,684 corpus weight
- étale
étale
82,683 corpus weight
- évaluée
évaluée
82,682 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écorce” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | écorce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “écorce” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around écorce (IPA \e.kɔʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,316 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for écorce, with forms such as "céorce", "ecorce", and "éccorce". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "écrie", "encore", "écoute", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écorce, spelled É-C-O-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Partie superficielle et protectrice des arbres et plus généralement des plantes ligneuses.
- 2Enveloppe de certains fruits, quand elle est épaisse.
- 3Croûte externe d'une planète.
- 4Superficie, apparence.
- 5Partie latérale des volutes d'un chapiteau ionique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écorce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écorce de chêne, employée pour le tannage des cuirs, est un élément important de la richesse forestière du département.
L’eau frangeait les ramures, alourdissait les fils d’araignée, imbibait les écorces gluantes, et des feuilles tombaient, çà et là, en tournant, dans le tranquille égouttement, dans le grand calme profond.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céorce
- ecorce
- éccorce
- écocre
- écorcce
- écorec
- écorrce
- écroce
- éocrce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écorce - 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 "écorce", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "écorce" maps to 17 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "écrie". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,316 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "É" letter cohort. É–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.