écrivaines
\e.kʁi.vɛn\
The verdict
“écrivaines” is uncommon French (frequency #77,171 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,171
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de écrivaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrivaines · écrivaines · French
écrivaines · rank #77,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,171
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écroulés
Nearest frequency peer: écroulés (+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 « écrivaines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zoophile
zoophile
22,833 corpus weight
- Zora
Zora
22,832 corpus weight
- écrivaines
écrivaines
22,830 corpus weight
- écroulés
écroulés
22,829 corpus weight
- écœurante
écœurante
22,828 corpus weight
- édicule
édicule
22,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrivaines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrivaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.vɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrivaines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrivaines is uncommon French at frequency #77,171 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kʁi.vɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de écrivaine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écrivaines in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is écrivaines, spelled É-C-R-I-V-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écrivaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrivaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un texte publié dans Le Monde jeudi, plus de 400 écrivaines, éditrices et enseignantes-chercheuses, dont Annie Ernaux, prix Nobel de littérature 2022, Vanessa Springora et Camille Kouchner, alertent sur « la persistance des agressions sexuelles et des viols dans le monde littéraire et les études de lettres ».
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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