écrasa
\e.kʁa.za\
The verdict
“écrasa” is uncommon French (frequency #51,832 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,832
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écraser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrasa · écrasa · French
écrasa · rank #51,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,832
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écouterai
Nearest frequency peer: écouterai (-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 « écrasa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éblouisseme…
éblouissement
48,172 corpus weight
- éclabousse
éclabousse
48,171 corpus weight
- écouterai
écouterai
48,170 corpus weight
- écrasa
écrasa
48,169 corpus weight
- égalant
égalant
48,168 corpus weight
- éjaculer
éjaculer
48,167 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrasa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrasa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁa.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrasa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrasa is uncommon French at frequency #51,832 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁa.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écraser.".
écrasa has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is écrasa, spelled É-C-R-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écraser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrasa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Wagram, un boulet de canon écrasa sur le cœur du marquis de Cante-Croix le seul portrait qui attestât la beauté de Mme de Bargeton.
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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