écorchure
\e.kɔʁ.ʃyʁ\
The verdict
“écorchure” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éraflure de la peau, ou de tout autre chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecorchure · écorchure · French
écorchure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écorchure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kɔʁ.ʃyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
écorchure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kɔʁ.ʃyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Éraflure de la peau, ou de tout autre chose.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for écorchure, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écorchure, spelled É-C-O-R-C-H-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Éraflure de la peau, ou de tout autre chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écorchure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce cheval a une écorchure.
Cette reliure, ce vernis, cet arbre a reçu une écorchure.
Synonyms
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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.