écorcher les oreilles
\e.kɔʁ.ʃe le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“écorcher les oreilles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Provoquer sur l’ouïe une impression désagréable, en parlant de sons rudes, aigres ou discordants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écorcher les oreilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kɔʁ.ʃe le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écorcher les oreilles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écorcher les oreilles is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kɔʁ.ʃe le.z‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for écorcher les oreilles 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 les oreilles, spelled É-C-O-R-C-H-E-R- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Provoquer sur l’ouïe une impression désagréable, en parlant de sons rudes, aigres ou discordants.
- 2Tenir des propos déplacés, maladroits ou grammaticalement incorrects.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-O-R-C-H-E-R- -L-E-S- -O-R-E-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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