écrier
\e.kʁje\
The verdict
“écrier” is uncommon French (frequency #94,415 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,415
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nettoyer du fil de fer avec de la poudre de grès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrier · écrier · French
écrier · rank #94,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,415
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écriviez
Nearest frequency peer: écriviez (+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 « écrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclipsent
éclipsent
5,589 corpus weight
- éclopés
éclopés
5,588 corpus weight
- écrier
écrier
5,586 corpus weight
- écriviez
écriviez
5,585 corpus weight
- édifia
édifia
5,584 corpus weight
- égrener
égrener
5,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrier is uncommon French at frequency #94,415 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nettoyer du fil de fer avec de la poudre de grès.".
écrier has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écrier, spelled É-C-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer du fil de fer avec de la poudre de grès.
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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