écrasent
\e.kʁaz\
The verdict
“écrasent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,790
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écraser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrasent · écrasent · French
écrasent · rank #31,790 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,790
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écoutera
Nearest frequency peer: écoutera (-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 “écrasent”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ZEP
ZEP
68,214 corpus weight
- écoutera
écoutera
68,212 corpus weight
- écrasent
écrasent
68,211 corpus weight
- émanation
émanation
68,210 corpus weight
- énerves
énerves
68,209 corpus weight
- époustoufla…
époustouflant
68,208 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écrasent” 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 | écrasent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁaz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “écrasent” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around écrasent (IPA \e.kʁaz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,790 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrasent, with forms such as "cérasent", "ecrasent", and "écarsent". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "écraser", "écrivent", "écrasé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écrasent, spelled É-C-R-A-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écraser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de écraser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérasent
- ecrasent
- écarsent
- éccrasent
- écraesnt
- écrasennt
- écrasentt
- écrasetn
- écrasnet
- écrassent
- écrrasent
- écrsaent
- ércasent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrasent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrasent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "écrasent". Here's where to go from here.
- "écrasent" maps to 9 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "écraser". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #31,790 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "É" letter cohort. É–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.