écritures
\e.kʁi.tyʁ\
The verdict
“écritures” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,493
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de écriture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecritures · écritures · French
écritures · rank #13,493 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,493
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH écologistes
Nearest frequency peer: écologistes (-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 “écritures”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- VTT
VTT
86,511 corpus weight
- écologistes
écologistes
86,509 corpus weight
- écritures
écritures
86,508 corpus weight
- élastique
élastique
86,507 corpus weight
- émotionnel
émotionnel
86,506 corpus weight
- énoncé
énoncé
86,505 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écritures” 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 | écritures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écritures” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around écritures (IPA \e.kʁi.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,493 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de écriture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for écritures, with forms such as "céritures", "ecritures", and "éccritures". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "écrites", "écriture", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écritures, spelled É-C-R-I-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écriture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écritures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il vit avec son fils, Nicolas, qui rechigne au métier et voudrait apprendre pour aller dans les écritures ; mais il n’a jamais osé en parler au vieux.
Fils de la servante, Jacquet entre à moins de treize ans comme employé aux écritures chez son père naturel qui ne lui accorde rien, après cette place de clerc dans son étude, pas même un regard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céritures
- ecritures
- éccritures
- écirtures
- écritrues
- écrittures
- écrituers
- écrituress
- écriturres
- écriturse
- écriutres
- écrritures
- écrtiures
- ércitures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écritures - 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.
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 "écritures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 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.