écrasante

\e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\

/\e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\/ adj

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The verdict

“écrasante” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,279
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de écrasant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ecrasante · écrasante · French

écrasante · rank #16,279 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,279
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH écoutais

Nearest frequency peer: écoutais (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrasante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « écrasante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

écrasante vs écrasent
78% similar
écrasante vs écrasant
89% similar
écrasante vs éclatante
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for écrasante
PropertyValue
Headwordécrasante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,279
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrasante »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).écrasantese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « écoutais » (#16,278), « éliminée » (#16,280), « éclaircir » (#16,277). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écrasante » est au #16,279. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around écrasante (IPA \e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,279 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de écrasant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrasante, with forms such as "cérasante", "ecrasante", and "écarsante". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "écrasent", "écrasant", "éclatante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 écrasante, spelled É-C-R-A-S-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de écrasant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cérasante
  • ecrasante
  • écarsante
  • éccrasante
  • écraasnte
  • écrasanet
  • écrasannte
  • écrasantte
  • écrasatne
  • écrasnate
  • écrassante
  • écrrasante
  • écrsaante
  • ércasante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrasante - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cérasante2ecrasante1écarsante2éccrasante1écraasnte2écrasanet2écrasannte1écrasantte1
Edit distance from "écrasante"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écrasante"?
"écrasante" is spelled É-C-R-A-S-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\.
What does "écrasante" mean?
As an adjective, "écrasante" means: Féminin singulier de écrasant.
What words are commonly confused with "écrasante"?
"écrasante" is commonly confused with "écrasent", "écrasant", "éclatante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écrasante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écrasante" is \e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écrasante" come from?
"écrasante" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrasante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

éclaircir#16,277évidentes#16,284affinités#16,290affirmait#16,291

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

activation14 variantsanalystes14 variantsastronaute14 variantsserviront14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list