érode
\e.ʁɔd\
The verdict
“érode” is uncommon French (frequency #79,879 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,879
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de éroder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erode · érode · French
érode · rank #79,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,879
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émirati
Nearest frequency peer: émirati (-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 « érode »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- électrochim…
électrochimique
20,125 corpus weight
- émincé
émincé
20,124 corpus weight
- émirati
émirati
20,123 corpus weight
- érode
érode
20,122 corpus weight
- étalait
étalait
20,121 corpus weight
- étatiste
étatiste
20,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « érode » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | érode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʁɔd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « érode » en français
Rare enough to double-check
érode is uncommon French at frequency #79,879 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʁɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for érode, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is érode, spelled É-R-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de éroder.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de éroder.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de éroder.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de éroder.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de éroder.
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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