écroulait
\e.kʁu.lɛ\
The verdict
“écroulait” is uncommon French (frequency #81,712 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,712
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe écrouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecroulait · écroulait · French
écroulait · rank #81,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,712
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écologisme
Nearest frequency peer: écologisme (-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 « écroulait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclatez
éclatez
18,292 corpus weight
- écologisme
écologisme
18,290 corpus weight
- écroulait
écroulait
18,289 corpus weight
- éditant
éditant
18,288 corpus weight
- électorats
électorats
18,287 corpus weight
- élégiaque
élégiaque
18,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écroulait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écroulait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁu.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écroulait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écroulait is uncommon French at frequency #81,712 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁu.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe écrouler.".
Zero misspellings are on record for écroulait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écroulait, spelled É-C-R-O-U-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe écrouler.
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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