écoutille
\e.ku.tij\
The verdict
“écoutille” is uncommon French (frequency #78,074 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,074
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de trappe, ouverture carrée ou rectangulaire pratiquée dans le pont d’un navire pour descendre dans l’intérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutille · écoutille · French
écoutille · rank #78,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,074
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échouées
Nearest frequency peer: échouées (-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 « écoutille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zwei
zwei
21,930 corpus weight
- échauffés
échauffés
21,929 corpus weight
- échouées
échouées
21,928 corpus weight
- écoutille
écoutille
21,927 corpus weight
- émoussée
émoussée
21,925 corpus weight
- épiloguer
épiloguer
21,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écoutille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écoutille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ku.tij\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écoutille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écoutille is uncommon French at frequency #78,074 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ku.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for écoutille, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is écoutille, spelled É-C-O-U-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de trappe, ouverture carrée ou rectangulaire pratiquée dans le pont d’un navire pour descendre dans l’intérieur.
- 2Oreille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écoutille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hommes descendaient, bouchaient tour à tour l’écoutille, se laissaient glisser le long de l’échelle de fer et avec eux de l’eau saumâtre dégringolait, se formait en rigole sur le plancher. Il y avait toujours aussi une voix pour crier : — L’écoutille, nom de D… !
Du bout de son fouet il montra à Léda l’écoutille ouverte que deux soldats, tenant un lourd gourdin, gardaient.
This word in other languages
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).