écumer
\e.ky.me\
The verdict
“écumer” is uncommon French (frequency #67,986 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,986
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se couvrir d’écume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecumer · écumer · French
écumer · rank #67,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,986
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échelonne
Nearest frequency peer: échelonne (-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 « écumer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zem
zem
32,018 corpus weight
- Zermatt
Zermatt
32,017 corpus weight
- échelonne
échelonne
32,016 corpus weight
- écumer
écumer
32,015 corpus weight
- égorgée
égorgée
32,014 corpus weight
- égrène
égrène
32,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ky.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écumer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écumer is uncommon French at frequency #67,986 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ky.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écumer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is écumer, spelled É-C-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se couvrir d’écume.
- 2Manifester vivement sa colère.
- 3Débarrasser de l’écume.
- 4Faire le métier de pirate.
- 5Piller, rafler l’argent disponible.
- 6Chercher, fouiller et prendre çà et là.
- 7Fréquenter avec une grande assiduité, voire une grande avidité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mer écume.
Ce vin, cette bière écume.
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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