écossais
\e.kɔ.sɛ\
The verdict
“écossais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,485
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’Écosse ou à ses habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecossais · écossais · French
écossais · rank #8,485 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,485
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Zélande
Nearest frequency peer: Zélande (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « écossais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voyageur
voyageur
91,519 corpus weight
- XVIIIe
XVIIIe
91,518 corpus weight
- Zélande
Zélande
91,517 corpus weight
- écossais
écossais
91,516 corpus weight
- élites
élites
91,515 corpus weight
- 4G
4G
91,513 corpus weight
What this shows « écossais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | écossais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écossais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around écossais (IPA \e.kɔ.sɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,485 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for écossais, with forms such as "céossais", "ecossais", and "éccossais". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "essais", "écoutais", "écossaise", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 écossais, spelled É-C-O-S-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Écosse ou à ses habitants.
- 2Se dit de certains tissus à carreaux de différentes couleurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écossais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nolwenn Arzel emportera les auditeurs dans son monde magique de la harpe celtique, avec des airs irlandais, écossais et bretons
Je portais une robe écossaise, dont j’avais cousu moi-même les ourlets, mais neuve, et taillée à ma mesure ; compulsant des catalogues, allant, venant, m’affairant, il me semblait que j’étais charmante à voir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céossais
- ecossais
- éccossais
- écosais
- écosasis
- écossaiss
- écossasi
- écossias
- écsosais
- éocssais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écossais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).