écouta
\e.ku.ta\
The verdict
“écouta” is uncommon French (frequency #55,694 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,694
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecouta · écouta · French
écouta · rank #55,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,694
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écorcher
Nearest frequency peer: écorcher (-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 « écouta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échappaient
échappaient
44,310 corpus weight
- éclectiques
éclectiques
44,309 corpus weight
- écorcher
écorcher
44,308 corpus weight
- écouta
écouta
44,307 corpus weight
- édile
édile
44,306 corpus weight
- énervez
énervez
44,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écouta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écouta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écouta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écouta is uncommon French at frequency #55,694 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ku.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écouter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écouta, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is écouta, spelled É-C-O-U-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écouter.
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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