écrins
\e.kʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“écrins” is uncommon French (frequency #62,000 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,000
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de écrin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrins · écrins · French
écrins · rank #62,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,000
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH édicte
Nearest frequency peer: édicte (+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 « écrins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échouera
échouera
38,004 corpus weight
- éclatées
éclatées
38,003 corpus weight
- écrins
écrins
38,001 corpus weight
- édicte
édicte
38,000 corpus weight
- égalités
égalités
37,999 corpus weight
- éjectée
éjectée
37,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrins is uncommon French at frequency #62,000 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de écrin.".
écrins has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écrins, spelled É-C-R-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écrin.
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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