Which to use
“echo” and “écolo” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,256
- “echo” frequency rank
- #16,784
- “écolo” frequency rank
- 31040
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | echo | écolo |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour la lettre latine E. | , (Parfois péjoratif) Écologiste. |
Where the eye mixes echo and écolo
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. echo runs 4 letters (VCCV) against écolo's 5 (VCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: echo vs écolo
A purely visual mix-up. echo (\ˈɛko\) and écolo (\e.kɔ.lo\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31040, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
echo is recorded at frequency rank #14,256, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈɛko\. écolo is at rank #16,784, tagged as anoun, pronounced \e.kɔ.lo\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 31040, this pair ranks #306,378 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of echo vs écolo
Shared letters: co. Private to "echo": eh. Private to "écolo": lé.
"echo" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "écolo" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- echo ← ceho · eccho · echho · ecoh · ehco
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "echo" and "écolo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "echo" or "écolo" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "echo" and "écolo" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "echo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "écolo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #306,378 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "echo" and "écolo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "echo vs EPO". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #306,378 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.