écouteur
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,127
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
écouteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui a l’habitude d’écouter, par une curiosité indiscrète, ce qu’on ne veut pas lui faire connaître. Pronounced \e.ku.tœʁ\. Often confused with écoutez and écouteurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écouteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ku.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écouteur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ku.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,127 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écouteur, with forms such as "céouteur", "ecouteur", and "éccouteur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "écoutez", "écouteurs", "écoute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is écouteur, spelled É-C-O-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a l’habitude d’écouter, par une curiosité indiscrète, ce qu’on ne veut pas lui faire connaître.
- 2Appareil qui permet d’écouter une communication, un enregistrement, de la musique, etc. Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céouteur,ecouteur,éccouteur,écotueur,écouetur,écouteru,écouteurr,écoutteur,écoutuer,écuoteur,éocuteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for écouteur
Misspelling Variants of "écouteur"
Frequency rank: #42,127 in French
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