écoulait
\e.ku.lɛ\
The verdict
“écoulait” is uncommon French (frequency #64,192 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,192
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoulait · écoulait · French
écoulait · rank #64,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,192
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH écotourisme
Nearest frequency peer: écotourisme (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écoulait”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- éclairez
éclairez
35,813 corpus weight
- écoper
écoper
35,811 corpus weight
- écotourisme
écotourisme
35,810 corpus weight
- écoulait
écoulait
35,809 corpus weight
- éds
éds
35,807 corpus weight
- égoutter
égoutter
35,805 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écoulait” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écoulait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écoulait” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
écoulait is uncommon French at frequency #64,192 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ku.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouler.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for écoulait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is écoulait, spelled É-C-O-U-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouler.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écoulait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.