écusson
\e.ky.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“écusson” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,667
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 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 ;
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecusson · écusson · French
écusson · rank #27,667 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,667
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH échevin
Nearest frequency peer: échevin (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écusson”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wyatt
Wyatt
72,337 corpus weight
- youth
youth
72,336 corpus weight
- échevin
échevin
72,335 corpus weight
- écusson
écusson
72,334 corpus weight
- éditorialis…
éditorialiste
72,333 corpus weight
- élit
élit
72,332 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écusson” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| 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
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around écusson (IPA \e.ky.sɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,667 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for écusson, with forms such as "céusson", "ecusson", and "éccusson". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 écusson, spelled É-C-U-S-S-O-N.
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.
This word in other languages
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 - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écusson", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.