escapade
/ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/
"escapade" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“escapade” is uncommon English (frequency #51,689 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,689
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
Corpus desk
Index EN-escapade · escapade · English
escapade · rank #51,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,689
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH ert
Nearest frequency peer: ert (-1 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 “escapade”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ents
ents
48,316 corpus weight
- EPR
EPR
48,314 corpus weight
- ert
ert
48,313 corpus weight
- escapade
escapade
48,312 corpus weight
- Essie
Essie
48,311 corpus weight
- expending
expending
48,310 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “escapade” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escapade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “escapade” in English
Rare enough to double-check
escapade is uncommon English at frequency #51,689 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.".
escapade has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre. The correct English form is escapade, spelled E-S-C-A-P-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escapade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. […] The beſt of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Viſits of Eſcapade or Recreation; […]
[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
Etymology
Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre.
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); 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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