écussons
\e.ky.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“écussons” is uncommon French (frequency #59,736 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,736
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de écusson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecussons · écussons · French
écussons · rank #59,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éducations
Nearest frequency peer: éducations (+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 « écussons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ys
ys
40,269 corpus weight
- zina
zina
40,268 corpus weight
- zoophilie
zoophilie
40,267 corpus weight
- écussons
écussons
40,265 corpus weight
- éducations
éducations
40,264 corpus weight
- édulcorée
édulcorée
40,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écussons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écussons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ky.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écussons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écussons is uncommon French at frequency #59,736 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ky.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de écusson.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écussons in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écussons, spelled É-C-U-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écusson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écussons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des Taïwanais se sont même empressés d’acheter les écussons à l’effigie de Winnie l’ourson, commercialisés pour 200 dollars taïwanais (6 €).
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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