écoutiez
\e.ku.tje\
The verdict
“écoutiez” is uncommon French (frequency #72,849 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,849
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutiez · écoutiez · French
écoutiez · rank #72,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,849
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écomusée
Nearest frequency peer: écomusée (-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 « écoutiez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écheveau
écheveau
27,155 corpus weight
- échouèrent
échouèrent
27,154 corpus weight
- écomusée
écomusée
27,153 corpus weight
- écoutiez
écoutiez
27,152 corpus weight
- éduquent
éduquent
27,151 corpus weight
- égoïstement
égoïstement
27,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écoutiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écoutiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écoutiez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écoutiez is uncommon French at frequency #72,849 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ku.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for écoutiez in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écoutiez, spelled É-C-O-U-T-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).