écureuil
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,895
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
écureuil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit mammifère rongeur et arboricole doué d’une grande agilité et remarquable par sa queue touffue qui se relève en panache. Pronounced \e.ky.ʁœj\. Often confused with écureuils and écueil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écureuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ky.ʁœj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écureuil is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ky.ʁœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,895 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for écureuil, with forms such as "céureuil", "ecureuil", and "éccureuil". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "écureuils", "écueil", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is écureuil, spelled É-C-U-R-E-U-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit mammifère rongeur et arboricole doué d’une grande agilité et remarquable par sa queue touffue qui se relève en panache.
- 2Personne prévoyante par analogie avec un comportement de l’animal.
- 3Caténairiste.
- 4Personne vive, active, qui ne tient pas en place.
- 5Synonyme de bombyx du hêtre.
- 6Sorte d’indicateur pour avertir des touches dans la pêche aux carpes et aux silures.
- 7Ancien nom vernaculaire du serran de sable (Diplectrum formosum, L. 1766), poisson des zones tropicales américaines atlantiques.
- 8Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté rampant, la queue le long du dos. À rapprocher de bièvre, castor, connil, lapin et lièvre.
- 9Pompier ou secouriste qui a pour rôle de maintenir l’axe tête-cou-tronc de la victime lors d’une manœuvre de désincarcération, parfois à l’aide d’un collier cervical.
- 10Militant dont l’action consiste à se confiner dans un arbre et n’acceptant d’en descendre qu’une fois sa cause entendue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céureuil,ecureuil,éccureuil,écrueuil,écueruil,écureiul,écureuill,écureuli,écurreuil,écurueil,éucreuil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "écureuil"
Frequency rank: #20,895 in French
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Nearby French words
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