éculé
\e.ky.le\
The verdict
“éculé” is uncommon French (frequency #84,452 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,452
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont le talon est usé ou déformé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecule · éculé · French
éculé · rank #84,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,452
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échelonnant
Nearest frequency peer: échelonnant (-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 « éculé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ébruiter
ébruiter
15,551 corpus weight
- échelonnant
échelonnant
15,550 corpus weight
- éculé
éculé
15,549 corpus weight
- égrènent
égrènent
15,548 corpus weight
- égyptologue
égyptologue
15,547 corpus weight
- égéries
égéries
15,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éculé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éculé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éculé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éculé is uncommon French at frequency #84,452 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for éculé, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éculé, spelled É-C-U-L-É.
Definition
- 1Dont le talon est usé ou déformé.
- 2Démodé, passé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éculé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous n’avez donc vu ni ses bottes éculées qui prennent l’eau.
On ne voit pas que, puisque notre bourgeois a dépensé six francs à une chose, il ne pourra plus les dépenser à une autre. On ne voit pas que s’il n’eût pas eu de vitre à remplacer, il eût remplacé, par exemple, ses souliers éculés ou mis un livre de plus dans sa bibliothèque. Bref, il aurait fait de ses six francs un emploi quelconque qu’il ne fera pas.
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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