écrasait
\e.kʁa.zɛ\
The verdict
“écrasait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,239 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,239
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écraser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrasait · écrasait · French
écrasait · rank #61,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,239
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écoulant
Nearest frequency peer: écoulant (-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 « écrasait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zulu
Zulu
38,765 corpus weight
- échangistes
échangistes
38,764 corpus weight
- écoulant
écoulant
38,763 corpus weight
- écrasait
écrasait
38,762 corpus weight
- écuyers
écuyers
38,761 corpus weight
- égratignure
égratignure
38,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrasait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrasait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁa.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrasait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrasait is uncommon French at frequency #61,239 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁa.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écraser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écrasait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 écrasait, spelled É-C-R-A-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écraser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrasait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le boudin s’écrasait de moins en moins sur le sol. Quand il fut devenu parfaitement rond, Gérard approcha la cale à toucher, et dévissa d’un demi-filet la vis-soupape.
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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