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escort

es·cort/ˈɛs.kɔɹt/noun, verb

escort is spelled E-S-C-O-R-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables (es·cort). It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, escort means “A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of escort is escorts.

How many letters and syllables are in escort?

Letters6: E-S-C-O-R-T
Syllables2: es·cort
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,121st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is escort?

Escort appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce escort?

  • US /ˈɛs.kɔɹt/
  • UK /ˈɛs.kɔːt/

As a verb (“To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as…”): /ɪsˈkɔɹt/, /ɪsˈkɔːt/.

Escort has 2 syllables, split es·cort in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-escort.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-escort_(verb).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with escort?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as escort (/ɛskɔɹt/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: sector, corset, scoter, scrote.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of escort

  • escorts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • escorting participle, present
  • escorted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does escort mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.

  2. 2

    An accompanying person in such a group.

  3. 3

    A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.

  4. 4

    A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.

  5. 5

    An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.

  6. 6

    Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.

  7. 7

    A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.

verb

  1. 1

    To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.

  2. 2

    To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).

    At this point, the Tenant became extremely angry.... the Tenant started yelling even louder and charged at me. The Tenant was restrained by the security guard and escorted out of the hearing room. The Tenant was ultimately escorted out of t

  3. 3

    To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.

  4. 4

    To work as an escort (sex worker).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Escort in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchescorte (group of people who provide safety), escorter (To attend to in order to guard and protect)
GermanEskorte, Geleit (group of people who provide safety), eskortieren (To attend to in order to guard and protect), Begleitperson (accompanying person)
Portugueseescolta (group of people who provide safety), escoltar (To attend to in order to guard and protect), acompanhante (accompanying person)
Spanishescolta (group of people who provide safety), escoltar (To attend to in order to guard and protect), acompañante (accompanying person)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does escort come from?

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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