écrevisse
\e.kʁə.vis\
The verdict
“écrevisse” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #46,543 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #46,543
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Crustacé vivant dans les eaux douces (rivières, étangs, lacs), mesurant généralement de 7 à 10 cm et de grande réputation gastronomique, dont il existe plusieurs espèces, entre autres dans le genre...
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 | écrevisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁə.vis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrevisse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écrevisse is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁə.vis\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,543 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrevisse, with forms such as "cérevisse", "ecrevisse", and "éccrevisse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "écrevisses", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is écrevisse, spelled É-C-R-E-V-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Crustacé vivant dans les eaux douces (rivières, étangs, lacs), mesurant généralement de 7 à 10 cm et de grande réputation gastronomique, dont il existe plusieurs espèces, entre autres dans le genre Astacus.
- 2Pleutre qui recule au lieu d’avancer. → voir aller comme les écrevisses.
- 3Pince servant à attraper des objets au fond de l'eau.
- 4Grosse pince que l'on monte sur une grue et dont le serrage se fait par simple mise en tension du câble d'amarrage. (Note : on trouve parfois pince à écrevisse, mais plus généralement le terme technique de pince pantographique ou de pince pantographe.)
- 5Grosse pince, tenailles servant au forgeron à manipuler les pièces rougies au feu.
- 6Pierre à chaux qui après calcination prend une couleur rouge, comme l'écrevisse lors de la cuisson.
- 7Vers grec ou latin qui lu à rebours possède un sens. Vers rétrograde.
- 8Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Au delà de la seule écrevisse, elle représente généralement tous les crustacés qui ne sont pas clairement identifiables. Elle est représentée vue de dessus, pinces vers le chef (donc en pal), queue étendue. Sa couleur ordinaire est de gueules. À rapprocher de crabe, crevette et homard.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cérevisse,ecrevisse,éccrevisse,écervisse,écreivsse,écrevise,écrevises,écrevsise,écrevvisse,écrrevisse,écrveisse,ércevisse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrevisse - 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.
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Using “écrevisse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-R-E-V-I-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.kʁə.vis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “écrevisses” - see the side-by-side comparison. écrevisse vs écrevisses
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.