écumant
\e.ky.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“écumant” is uncommon French (frequency #99,789 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,789
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se couvre, qui est couvert d’écume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecumant · écumant · French
écumant · rank #99,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,789
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écrouée
Nearest frequency peer: écrouée (-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 « écumant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éconduire
éconduire
215 corpus weight
- écrives
écrives
214 corpus weight
- écrouée
écrouée
213 corpus weight
- écumant
écumant
212 corpus weight
- égyptologues
égyptologues
211 corpus weight
- élastomère
élastomère
210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écumant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écumant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ky.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écumant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écumant is uncommon French at frequency #99,789 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.ky.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for écumant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 écumant, spelled É-C-U-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se couvre, qui est couvert d’écume.
- 2Comme enragé, couvert d'écume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écumant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous un ciel fuligineux et sur une mer furieuse, un voilier démâté fuyait la tempête, donnant fortement de la bande, luttant désespérément contre l’assaut d’énormes vagues bondissantes qui se ruaient, secouant leurs crinières écumantes.
Le bateau s’enfonce dans l’obscurité. Le projecteur fixé au-dessus du chalut éclaire les eaux vertes et écumantes qu’accompagne le cortège des mouettes.
Synonyms
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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