écrasez
\e.kʁa.ze\
The verdict
“écrasez” is uncommon French (frequency #51,222 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,222
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écraser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrasez · écrasez · French
écrasez · rank #51,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,222
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclairante
Nearest frequency peer: éclairante (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « écrasez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclairante
éclairante
48,780 corpus weight
- écrasez
écrasez
48,779 corpus weight
- écroulée
écroulée
48,778 corpus weight
- égocentrisme
égocentrisme
48,777 corpus weight
- électrostat…
électrostatique
48,776 corpus weight
- éloquents
éloquents
48,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrasez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrasez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁa.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrasez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrasez is uncommon French at frequency #51,222 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁa.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
écrasez doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écrasez, spelled É-C-R-A-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écraser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de écraser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrasez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour préparer la bisque, émincez l’échalote et écrasez les gousses d’ail sans les éplucher.
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.
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