écoutent
\e.kut\
The verdict
“écoutent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,887
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutent · écoutent · French
écoutent · rank #11,887 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,887
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échelon
Nearest frequency peer: échelon (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « écoutent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- végétale
végétale
88,118 corpus weight
- whisky
whisky
88,117 corpus weight
- échelon
échelon
88,115 corpus weight
- écoutent
écoutent
88,114 corpus weight
- élevait
élevait
88,113 corpus weight
- élèvent
élèvent
88,110 corpus weight
What this shows « écoutent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | écoutent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kut\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écoutent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around écoutent (IPA \e.kut\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,887 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoutent, with forms such as "céoutent", "ecoutent", and "éccoutent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "écouter", "écoutez", "écoutes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 écoutent, spelled É-C-O-U-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écouter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de écouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écoutent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or vous croyez, vous enseignez, vous soutenez tout cela, & d’ailleurs vous n’avez nullement cette soumission aveugle. Donc que vous êtes un Socinien, que vous favorisez le Socinianisme, & que vous induisez à socinianiser ceux qui vous écoutent & qui lisent vos livres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoutent
- ecoutent
- éccoutent
- écotuent
- écouetnt
- écoutennt
- écoutentt
- écoutetn
- écoutnet
- écouttent
- écuotent
- éocutent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoutent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "écoutent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).