écraser

/\e.kʁa.ze\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,921

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

écraser is aFrenchverb. It means: Aplatir, briser quelque chose par un grand poids, par une forte compression, par un coup violent. Pronounced \e.kʁa.ze\. It ranks #7,921 in French word frequency. Often confused with enrayer and écrasé.

Key facts for écraser
PropertyValue
Headwordécraser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.kʁa.ze\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,921
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of écraser in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for écraser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁa.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,921 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for écraser, with forms such as "céraser", "ecraser", and "écarser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "enrayer", "écrasé", "éclater", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is écraser, spelled É-C-R-A-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aplatir, briser quelque chose par un grand poids, par une forte compression, par un coup violent.
  2. 2
    Heurter violemment et accidentellement.
  3. 3
    Surcharger.
  4. 4
    Perdre quelqu’un ; détruire entièrement ses moyens de fortune, de considération, anéantir, réduire à rien.
  5. 5
    Se montrer plus fort, plus habile ; prendre un grand avantage sur quelqu’un.
  6. 6
    Enregistrer un contenu dans un fichier ou document en supprimant le contenu antérieur.
  7. 7
    Se taire.
  8. 8
    Dormir profondément, ce qui écrase le support du fait de l'absence de tonus musculaire pendant le sommeil
  9. 9
    Venir heurter violemment la surface d’un objet plus rigide et plus large, au point de se déformer.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: céraser,ecraser,écarser,éccraser,écraesr,écraserr,écrasre,écrasser,écrraser,écrsaer,ércaser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for écraser

Misspelling Variants of "écraser"

céraser7ecraser7écarser7éccraser8écraesr7écraserr8écrasre7écrasser8
Misspelling Variants of "écraser"

Frequency rank: #7,921 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écraser"?
"écraser" is spelled É-C-R-A-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁa.ze\.
What does "écraser" mean?
As a verb, "écraser" means: Aplatir, briser quelque chose par un grand poids, par une forte compression, par un coup violent.
What words are commonly confused with "écraser"?
"écraser" is commonly confused with "enrayer", "écrasé", "éclater". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écraser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écraser" is \e.kʁa.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écraser" come from?
"écraser" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.