s’écouler
\s‿e.ku.le\
The verdict
“s’écouler” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couler hors de quelque endroit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-ecouler · s’écouler · French
s’écouler · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’écouler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿e.ku.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’écouler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’écouler is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿e.ku.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
s’écouler has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is s’écouler, spelled S-’-É-C-O-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couler hors de quelque endroit.
- 2Se retirer du lieu où elle se trouve, en parlant de la foule.
- 3Diminuer, passer, se dissiper, en parlant surtout des richesses.
- 4Avancer progressivement ou d’une façon continue, à propos du temps.
- 5Se débiter, se vendre, être exporté, en parlant des marchandises, des produits agricoles, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’écouler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’infirmier n’appuyait que très lentement sur la seringue et le liquide ne devait s’écouler que goutte à goutte dans mon sang.
L’eau s’écoule.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.