écroulée
\e.kʁu.le\
The verdict
“écroulée” is uncommon French (frequency #51,223 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,223
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de écrouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecroulee · écroulée · French
écroulée · rank #51,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,223
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écrasez
Nearest frequency peer: écrasez (-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 « écroulée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclairante
éclairante
48,780 corpus weight
- écrasez
écrasez
48,779 corpus weight
- écroulée
écroulée
48,778 corpus weight
- égocentrisme
égocentrisme
48,777 corpus weight
- électrostat…
électrostatique
48,776 corpus weight
- éloquents
éloquents
48,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écroulée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écroulée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁu.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écroulée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écroulée is uncommon French at frequency #51,223 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁu.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de écrouler.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écroulée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 écroulée, spelled É-C-R-O-U-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de 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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