ectopie

\ɛk.tɔ.pi\

/\ɛk.tɔ.pi\/ noun

The verdict

“ectopie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Position anormale d'un organe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ectopie · ectopie · French

ectopie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for ectopie
PropertyValue
Headwordectopie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛk.tɔ.pi\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ectopie » en français

ectopien'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ectopie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.tɔ.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ectopie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ectopie, spelled E-C-T-O-P-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Position anormale d'un organe.
  2. 2
    Qualité de ce qui n’est pas au bon endroit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ectopie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Inversement un vocable savant peut être forgé pour désigner une réalité triviale : — capillotracté : du latin capillus « cheveux » et de tractus « tiré » (tiré par les cheveux) ; — ectopie gastro-calcanéenne : du grec ek « hors », topos « lieu », gaster « estomac » et du latin calcaneum « talons » (avoir l’estomac dans les talons) On retrouve là les jeux…
  2. Tout au contraire, l’image d’un mystère intemporel doit cultiver l’uchronie, l’utopie et l’ustratie. Mais comme tout ce qui est humain est en histoire, elles sont forcément inaccessibles et ne se peuvent atteindre que par les voies de la catachronie des personnages et de l’ectopie du paysage, et plus généralement de la panchronie, de la pantopie et de la…

Synonyms

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ectopie"?
"ectopie" is spelled E-C-T-O-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.tɔ.pi\.
What does "ectopie" mean?
As a noun, "ectopie" means: Position anormale d'un organe.
How do you pronounce "ectopie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ectopie" is \ɛk.tɔ.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ectopie" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list