écrit
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#500
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
écrit is anFrenchadj. It means: Recouvert de signes graphiques, se dit spécialement d’un papier, d’un parchemin, etc., sur lequel on a écrit ; antonymes : blanc, vierge. Pronounced \e.kʁi\. It ranks #500 in French word frequency. Often confused with Eric and edit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \e.kʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écrit is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #500 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrit, with forms such as "cérit", "ecrit", and "éccrit". 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, "Eric", "edit", "exit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 écrit, spelled É-C-R-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recouvert de signes graphiques, se dit spécialement d’un papier, d’un parchemin, etc., sur lequel on a écrit ; antonymes : blanc, vierge.
- 2Inscrit, marqué, enregistré au moyen de l’écriture ; antonyme : oral.
- 3Qui a une valeur juridique fondée sur la jurisprudence, un code, etc. ; antonyme : coutumier.
- 4Marqué.
- 5Mot exprimant le fatalisme.
- 6Qui suppose un travail de composition, de rédaction, rédigé, soutenu, littéraire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cérit,ecrit,éccrit,écirt,écritt,écrrit,écrti,ércit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "écrit"
Frequency rank: #500 in French
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Nearby French words
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