écusson
\e.ky.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“écusson” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #27,667 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #27,667
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Petite pièce de tissu cousue sur un vêtement et servant d'insigne ou de décoration ;
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écusson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ky.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écusson” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écusson is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ky.sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,667 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for écusson, with forms such as "céusson", "ecusson", and "éccusson". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 écusson, spelled É-C-U-S-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite pièce de tissu cousue sur un vêtement et servant d'insigne ou de décoration ;
- 2Écu d’armoiries ; blason.
- 3Tablette ou cartouche portant des figures, des inscriptions, des pièces héraldiques.
- 4Plaque blasonnée qui indique l’office d’un notaire, d’un huissier, etc.
- 5Petite plaque de fer ou de cuivre qui est appliquée sur une serrure pour le passage de la clef ou qui sert simplement d’ornement.
- 6Morceau d’écorce portant un œil ou un bouton, que l’on enlève au moment de la sève à une jeune branche d’arbre pour le greffer entre le bois et l’écorce d’un autre arbre
- 7Partie postérieure du corselet chez certains insectes.
- 8Partie cornée sur le pied des oiseaux.
- 9Chez la vache, surface de forme variable à la base des mamelles , et qui s'étend vers la région périnéale, cette zone se distingue par la direction particulière du pelage.
- 10Ancien ornement de la partie inférieure de l'arcasse sur les navires de grande taille.
- 11Petit sachet de toile taillé en écusson dans lequel on mettait des poudres cordiales, et que l'on portait au niveau du cœur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céusson,ecusson,éccusson,écsuson,écuson,écusosn,écussno,écussonn,éucsson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écusson - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "écusson"
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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Using “écusson”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-U-S-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ky.sɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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