écrive

\e.kʁiv\

/\e.kʁiv\/ verb

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The verdict

“écrive” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,413
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ecrive · écrive · French

écrive · rank #28,413 · 9 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,413
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH édifiant

Nearest frequency peer: édifiant (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrive »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « écrive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

écrive vs érige
67% similar
écrive vs écurie
67% similar
écrive vs écroué
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for écrive
PropertyValue
Headwordécrive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.kʁiv\
Letters6
Frequency rank#28,413
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrive »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.écrivese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « édifiant » (#28,414), « works » (#28,411), « Wolff » (#28,410). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écrive » est au #28,413. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around écrive (IPA \e.kʁiv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,413 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrive, with forms such as "cérive", "ecrive", and "éccrive". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "érige", "écurie", "écroué", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écrive, spelled É-C-R-I-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cérive
  • ecrive
  • éccrive
  • écirve
  • écriev
  • écrivve
  • écrrive
  • écrvie
  • ércive

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrive - 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.

cérive2ecrive1éccrive1écirve2écriev2écrivve1écrrive1écrvie2
Edit distance from "écrive"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écrive"?
"écrive" is spelled É-C-R-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁiv\.
What does "écrive" mean?
As a verb, "écrive" means: Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.
What words are commonly confused with "écrive"?
"écrive" is commonly confused with "érige", "écurie", "écroué". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écrive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écrive" is \e.kʁiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écrive" come from?
"écrive" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrive", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

épaves#28,417wanted#28,406œuvrer#28,423touffe#28,377

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

truffes9 variantsAlmeida9 variantsamenait9 variantstrouille9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list