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écosser

French, verb/e.kɔ.se/

écosser is spelled É-C-O-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écosser is a French verb meaning “to shell (e.g. a nut)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer de la cosse”.

What does écosser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to shell (e.g. a nut)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Tirer de la cosse. 2. Dépenser.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of écosser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • écossant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • écossé participle past
  • écosse first-person indicative present
  • écosses indicative present second-person
  • écossons first-person indicative plural
  • écossez indicative plural present
  • écossent indicative plural present
  • écossais first-person imperfect indicative
  • écossait imperfect indicative singular
  • écossions first-person imperfect indicative
  • écossiez imperfect indicative plural
  • écossaient imperfect indicative plural
  • écossai first-person historic indicative
  • écossas historic indicative past
  • écossa historic indicative past
  • écossâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce écosser?

  • /e.kɔ.se/
  • \e.kɔ.se\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to écosser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is écosser in French?

écosser appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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