écourgée
\e.kuʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“écourgée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de escourgée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecourgee · écourgée · French
écourgée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écourgée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kuʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écourgée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écourgée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kuʁ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de escourgée.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for écourgée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 écourgée, spelled É-C-O-U-R-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de escourgée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écourgée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourdʼhui, les doublets escourgée et écourgée signifient tous les deux « fouet ».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.