écroulent
\e.kʁul\
The verdict
“écroulent” is uncommon French (frequency #56,373 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,373
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écrouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecroulent · écroulent · French
écroulent · rank #56,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,373
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écouterais
Nearest frequency peer: écouterais (-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 « écroulent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échoit
échoit
43,631 corpus weight
- écourtée
écourtée
43,630 corpus weight
- écouterais
écouterais
43,629 corpus weight
- écroulent
écroulent
43,628 corpus weight
- émettrice
émettrice
43,627 corpus weight
- éminentes
éminentes
43,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écroulent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écroulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁul\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écroulent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écroulent is uncommon French at frequency #56,373 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for écroulent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écroulent, spelled É-C-R-O-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de écrouler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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