écoulement
\e.kul.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“écoulement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,068
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de s’écouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoulement · écoulement · French
écoulement · rank #15,068 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,068
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH zoé
Nearest frequency peer: zoé (-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 “écoulement”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- years
years
84,936 corpus weight
- zola
zola
84,935 corpus weight
- zoé
zoé
84,934 corpus weight
- écoulement
écoulement
84,933 corpus weight
- écouteurs
écouteurs
84,932 corpus weight
- épuisée
épuisée
84,931 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écoulement” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | écoulement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kul.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “écoulement” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around écoulement (IPA \e.kul.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,068 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoulement, with forms such as "céoulement", "ecoulement", and "éccoulement". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "écoulent", "écroulement", "écoulements", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écoulement, spelled É-C-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de s’écouler.
- 2Mouvement des humeurs qui sortent d’un organe.
- 3Hémorragie légère.
- 4Mouvement progressif ou continu.
- 5Exportation, vente, débit des marchandises, des produits de l’agriculture ou des fabriques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écoulement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant l’écoulement de l’eau vers les dunes ne contamine pas l’eau du sous-sol de celles-ci , parce qu’elle se purifie par filtration horizontale dans le sable.
L’écoulement turbulent déplacera non seulement presque toute la boue circulable, mais détruira aussi les couches tendres de cake par une action décapante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoulement
- ecoulement
- éccoulement
- écoluement
- écouelment
- écouleemnt
- écoulemennt
- écoulementt
- écoulemetn
- écoulemment
- écoulemnet
- écoullement
- écoulmeent
- écuolement
- éoculement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoulement - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écoulement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "écoulement" maps to 6 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "écoulent". View pair
- 15 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,068 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "É" letter cohort. É–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.