écrêtement des crues
\e.kʁɛt.mɑ̃ de kʁy\
The verdict
“écrêtement des crues” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Action de réduire l’amplitude d’une crue en retenant temporairement une partie du débit dans des barrages, retenues ou zones d’expansion, afin de limiter les inondations en aval.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrêtement des crues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁɛt.mɑ̃ de kʁy\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrêtement des crues” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écrêtement des crues is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁɛt.mɑ̃ de kʁy\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action de réduire l’amplitude d’une crue en retenant temporairement une partie du débit dans des barrages, retenues ou zones d’expansion, afin de limiter les inondations en aval.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écrêtement des crues in our index, 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 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 écrêtement des crues, spelled É-C-R-Ê-T-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E-S- -C-R-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de réduire l’amplitude d’une crue en retenant temporairement une partie du débit dans des barrages, retenues ou zones d’expansion, afin de limiter les inondations en aval.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-R-Ê-T-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E-S- -C-R-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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