écrasement
\e.kʁaz.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“écrasement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,085
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Action d’écraser ou le fait d’être écrasé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrasement · écrasement · French
écrasement · rank #24,085 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,085
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH zonage
Nearest frequency peer: zonage (-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 “écrasement”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Winnie
Winnie
75,919 corpus weight
- zonage
zonage
75,917 corpus weight
- écrasement
écrasement
75,916 corpus weight
- égorger
égorger
75,915 corpus weight
- électroména…
électroménager
75,914 corpus weight
- épris
épris
75,913 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écrasement” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrasement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁaz.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrasement” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around écrasement (IPA \e.kʁaz.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,085 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrasement, with forms such as "cérasement", "ecrasement", and "écarsement". 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", "embrasement", "éclatement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écrasement, spelled É-C-R-A-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’écraser ou le fait d’être écrasé.
- 2Action de soumettre un adversaire.
- 3Accident d’un avion qui s’écrase au sol.
- 4Perte complète ou presque de l’élan, de l’entrain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écrasement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet. Je pense que l’essentiel est là, dans l’écrasement des mots sous le poids des images.
Jacques se posait ces questions et, sincèrement, tout ce système d'écrasement le révoltait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérasement
- ecrasement
- écarsement
- éccrasement
- écraesment
- écraseemnt
- écrasemennt
- écrasementt
- écrasemetn
- écrasemment
- écrasemnet
- écrasmeent
- écrassement
- écrrasement
- écrsaement
- ércasement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrasement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 September 2, 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 "écrasement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
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.