écrives
\e.kʁiv\
The verdict
“écrives” is uncommon French (frequency #99,787 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,787
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrives · écrives · French
écrives · rank #99,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,787
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éconduire
Nearest frequency peer: éconduire (-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 « écrives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échafaude
échafaude
217 corpus weight
- échoueront
échoueront
216 corpus weight
- éconduire
éconduire
215 corpus weight
- écrives
écrives
214 corpus weight
- écrouée
écrouée
213 corpus weight
- écumant
écumant
212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁiv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrives is uncommon French at frequency #99,787 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for écrives in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écrives, spelled É-C-R-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de écrire.
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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