écoutiez

\e.ku.tje\

/\e.ku.tje\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écoutiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for écoutiez
PropertyValue
Headwordécoutiez
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.ku.tje\
Letters8
Frequency rank#72,849
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « écoutiez » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).écoutieztombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « écomusée » (#72,848), « éduquent » (#72,850), « échouèrent » (#72,847). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écoutiez » est au #72,849. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
  2. 2
    Deuxième 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écoutiez"?
"écoutiez" is spelled É-C-O-U-T-I-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ku.tje\.
What does "écoutiez" mean?
As a verb, "écoutiez" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
How do you pronounce "écoutiez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écoutiez" is \e.ku.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écoutiez" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écoutiez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list