écrabouiller
\e.kʁa.bu.je\
The verdict
“écrabouiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écraser, détruire, anéantir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrabouiller · écrabouiller · French
écrabouiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrabouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁa.bu.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
écrabouiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁa.bu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écrabouiller, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écrabouiller, spelled É-C-R-A-B-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Écraser, détruire, anéantir.
- 2Discréditer, critiquer vertement et publiquement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écrabouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l’ordre du commodore Cartwright, les canons furent prêts à canonner. Mais il avait toujours quelque répugnance à s’en servir, non qu’il se refusât à écrabouiller des rebelles papistes et républicains, mais […] ce bureau de poste évoquait pour lui l’attachante personnalité de sa fiancée, Miss Gertie Girdle…
Du haut d’un petit mur, le jeune homme écrabouilla à coups de serpe la tête d’une truie. Celle-là était sauvage et se ruait sur l’homme comme un taureau. Elle avait mangé ses porcelets.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.