écoutions
\e.ku.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“écoutions” is uncommon French (frequency #97,582 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,582
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutions · écoutions · French
écoutions · rank #97,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,582
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH écouterez
Nearest frequency peer: écouterez (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écoutions”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ébouriffés
ébouriffés
2,422 corpus weight
- écouterez
écouterez
2,420 corpus weight
- écoutions
écoutions
2,419 corpus weight
- écœurer
écœurer
2,418 corpus weight
- Édesse
Édesse
2,417 corpus weight
- électrolumi…
électroluminescentes
2,416 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écoutions” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écoutions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écoutions” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
écoutions is uncommon French at frequency #97,582 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ku.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écoutions, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écoutions, spelled É-C-O-U-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de écouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écoutions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous écoutions Piaf, silencieux, sur une radio japonaise.
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 "écoutions", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.