écria

\e.kʁi.ja\

/\e.kʁi.ja\/ verb

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The verdict

“écria” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,272
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ecria · écria · French

écria · rank #44,272 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,272
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH écolière

Nearest frequency peer: écolière (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « écria »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « écria » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

écria vs era
40% similar
écria vs Eric
40% similar
écria vs Ezra
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for écria
PropertyValue
Headwordécria
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.kʁi.ja\
Letters5
Frequency rank#44,272
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écria »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).écriase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « écolière » (#44,271), « élévateur » (#44,273), « Zweig » (#44,270). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écria » est au #44,272. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around écria (IPA \e.kʁi.ja\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,272 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrier.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for écria, with forms such as "céria", "ecria", and "éccria". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "era", "Eric", "Ezra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is écria, spelled É-C-R-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how écria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La mère Pailler qui n’y voyait point trop pour détrier les morceaux trempés, gorgés de souillure, s’apprêtait à gourmander celui qui lui bouchait sottement la lumière lorsque, levant la tête, elle s’écria : - Ah, l’Alban !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • céria
  • ecria
  • éccria
  • écira
  • écrai
  • ércia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écria - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

céria2ecria1éccria1écira2écrai2ércia2
Edit distance from "écria"

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

How do you spell "écria"?
"écria" is spelled É-C-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁi.ja\.
What does "écria" mean?
As a verb, "écria" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrier.
What words are commonly confused with "écria"?
"écria" is commonly confused with "era", "Eric", "Ezra". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écria"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écria" is \e.kʁi.ja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écria" come from?
"écria" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écria", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

émaux#44,274Zweig#44,270zumba#44,269witch#44,267

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Évry6 variantsways6 variantsvern6 variantsamasse6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list