écriteau
\e.kʁi.to\
The verdict
“écriteau” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,225
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inscription en grosses lettres, qu’on met sur un papier, sur du bois, sur de la toile, pour appeler l’attention du public.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecriteau · écriteau · French
écriteau · rank #43,225 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,225
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH écrie
Nearest frequency peer: écrie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écriteau”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- écologiquem…
écologiquement
56,779 corpus weight
- économes
économes
56,778 corpus weight
- écrie
écrie
56,777 corpus weight
- écriteau
écriteau
56,776 corpus weight
- écrivons
écrivons
56,775 corpus weight
- écœurant
écœurant
56,773 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écriteau” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | écriteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écriteau” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around écriteau (IPA \e.kʁi.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,225 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Inscription en grosses lettres, qu’on met sur un papier, sur du bois, sur de la toile, pour appeler l’attention du public.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écriteau, with forms such as "cériteau", "ecriteau", and "éccriteau". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "écrites", "écrite", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écriteau, spelled É-C-R-I-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Inscription en grosses lettres, qu’on met sur un papier, sur du bois, sur de la toile, pour appeler l’attention du public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écriteau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand un amour s’en va de mon cœur, je mets écriteau pour appeler un autre amour.
[…] on avait ajouté deux écriteaux réclames, dont l’un recommandait une montre à 3 fr. 95 et l’autre un tonique pour le système nerveux. Ces deux écriteaux étaient placés sur un plan horizontal, de façon à frapper la vue des voyageurs du monorail aérien, […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cériteau
- ecriteau
- éccriteau
- écirteau
- écrietau
- écritaeu
- écriteua
- écritteau
- écrriteau
- écrtieau
- érciteau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écriteau - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écriteau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
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.