écorcher
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,693
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
écorcher is aFrenchverb. It means: Dépouiller un animal de sa peau. Pronounced \e.kɔʁ.ʃe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écorcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kɔʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écorcher is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kɔʁ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,693 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for écorcher in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is écorcher, spelled É-C-O-R-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dépouiller un animal de sa peau.
- 2Supplicier certains condamnés en leur arrachant la peau en tout ou partie.
- 3Déchirer, enlever une partie de la peau d’une personne, d’un animal, ou de l’écorce d’un arbre.
- 4Être rude au palais, à la gorge, en parlant d’un aliment, d’une boisson.
- 5Être rude à l’oreille, en parlant de paroles, de sons, entendus.
- 6Parler mal, prononcer mal les mots, être loin de maîtriser une langue, la rudoyer.
- 7Rectifier l’épaisseur d’une ébauche avant de préparer le moule de fonderie.
- 8Exiger beaucoup plus de quelqu’un qu’il n’est équitable ou raisonnable pour des droits, des salaires, des vacations, pour des marchandises, des fournitures.
- 9Tenir des propos malveillants à l’égard de quelqu’un.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #55,693 in French
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