écoulant
\e.ku.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“écoulant” is uncommon French (frequency #61,238 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,238
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de écouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoulant · écoulant · French
écoulant · rank #61,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,238
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échangistes
Nearest frequency peer: échangistes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « écoulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zia
zia
38,766 corpus weight
- Zulu
Zulu
38,765 corpus weight
- échangistes
échangistes
38,764 corpus weight
- écoulant
écoulant
38,763 corpus weight
- écrasait
écrasait
38,762 corpus weight
- écuyers
écuyers
38,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écoulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écoulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écoulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écoulant is uncommon French at frequency #61,238 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ku.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de écouler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for écoulant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écoulant, spelled É-C-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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.
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