échelon
French, noun/eʃ.lɔ̃/
échelon is a French masculine noun meaning “rung” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chacune des traverses de bois ou de fer qui servent de degrés d’une échelle”.
What does échelon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerung
- 2
masculineechelon
- 3
masculinesoup bone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chacune des traverses de bois ou de fer qui servent de degrés d’une échelle. 2. Ce qui sert à mener d’un rang, d’un grade à un autre plus élevé. 3. Disposition des troupes sur divers plans, de façon à ce que les unes puissent soutenir et remplacer successivement les autres.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of échelon
- échelons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce échelon?
- /eʃ.lɔ̃/
- /ɛʃ.lɔ̃/
- \eʃ.lɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to échelon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is échelon in French?
échelon appears 4.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).