écru
\e.kʁy\
The verdict
“écru” is uncommon French (frequency #93,415 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,415
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Encore à l’état naturel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecru · écru · French
écru · rank #93,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,415
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échouerait
Nearest frequency peer: échouerait (-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 « écru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échangera
échangera
6,589 corpus weight
- échevelée
échevelée
6,588 corpus weight
- échouerait
échouerait
6,587 corpus weight
- écru
écru
6,586 corpus weight
- écœurement
écœurement
6,585 corpus weight
- égorgent
égorgent
6,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kʁy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écru is uncommon French at frequency #93,415 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.kʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écru, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is écru, spelled É-C-R-U.
Definition
- 1Encore à l’état naturel.
- 2De couleur blanche légèrement teintée de jaune, comme celle de la toile non blanchie. #FEFEE0
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soie écrue, celle qui n’a pas été mise à l’eau bouillante.
Fil écru, celui qui n’a pas été lavé.
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Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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