écoutez
\e.ku.te\
The verdict
“écoutez” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,717
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutez · écoutez · French
écoutez · rank #5,717 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,717
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Williams
Nearest frequency peer: Williams (-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 « écoutez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verres
verres
94,287 corpus weight
- virer
virer
94,286 corpus weight
- Williams
Williams
94,285 corpus weight
- écoutez
écoutez
94,284 corpus weight
- Égypte
Égypte
94,283 corpus weight
- électoral
électoral
94,282 corpus weight
What this shows « écoutez » 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 | écoutez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écoutez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around écoutez (IPA \e.ku.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,717 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoutez, with forms such as "céoutez", "ecoutez", and "éccoutez". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "écoute", "écoule", "écouter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écoutez, spelled É-C-O-U-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écouter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de écouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écoutez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a une méditation auditive qui a deux parties : premièrement, vous « désécoutez » ; puis, vous écoutez. « Désécouter » signifie séparer les sons de leurs associations qui, souvent, sont inconscientes.
N’écoutez que vous-même en affaires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoutez
- ecoutez
- éccoutez
- écotuez
- écouetz
- écoutezz
- écouttez
- écoutze
- écuotez
- éocutez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoutez - 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 "écoutez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).