escalade
/ˌɛskəˈleɪd/
"escalade" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“escalade” is uncommon English (frequency #52,300 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,300
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
Corpus desk
Index EN-escalade · escalade · English
escalade · rank #52,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,300
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH entryway
Nearest frequency peer: entryway (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “escalade”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- emanate
emanate
47,709 corpus weight
- encapsulate
encapsulate
47,706 corpus weight
- ens
ens
47,704 corpus weight
- entryway
entryway
47,703 corpus weight
- escalade
escalade
47,701 corpus weight
- facetious
facetious
47,694 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “escalade” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escalade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛskəˈleɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “escalade” in English
Rare enough to double-check
escalade is uncommon English at frequency #52,300 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɛskəˈleɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An act of scaling walls or fortifications.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for escalade, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade. The correct English form is escalade, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escalade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.
Etymology
Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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