écrous
\e.kʁu\
The verdict
“écrous” is uncommon French (frequency #50,599 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,599
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de écrou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrous · écrous · French
écrous · rank #50,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,599
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclos
Nearest frequency peer: éclos (-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 « écrous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échangiste
échangiste
49,404 corpus weight
- éclos
éclos
49,403 corpus weight
- écrous
écrous
49,402 corpus weight
- égorgés
égorgés
49,401 corpus weight
- éhontée
éhontée
49,400 corpus weight
- épure
épure
49,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrous is uncommon French at frequency #50,599 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.kʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de écrou.".
Zero misspellings are on record for écrous in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écrous, spelled É-C-R-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écrou.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).