écrasantes
\e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“écrasantes” is uncommon French (frequency #86,336 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,336
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de écrasant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrasantes · écrasantes · French
écrasantes · rank #86,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,336
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH ébranlées
Nearest frequency peer: ébranlées (-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 “écrasantes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- zooms
zooms
13,668 corpus weight
- zouzous
zouzous
13,667 corpus weight
- ébranlées
ébranlées
13,666 corpus weight
- écrasantes
écrasantes
13,665 corpus weight
- éditent
éditent
13,664 corpus weight
- égalera
égalera
13,663 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écrasantes” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrasantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrasantes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
écrasantes is uncommon French at frequency #86,336 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.kʁa.zɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de écrasant.".
écrasantes has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 écrasantes, spelled É-C-R-A-S-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de écrasant.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrasantes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 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.