échalade
\e.ʃa.lad\
The verdict
“échalade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assaut au moyen d’échelles d’une position, d’une fortification, d’une ville ceinturée de murailles en état de siège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echalade · échalade · French
échalade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échalade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.lad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échalade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échalade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʃa.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Assaut au moyen d’échelles d’une position, d’une fortification, d’une ville ceinturée de murailles en état de siège.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for échalade, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is échalade, spelled É-C-H-A-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Assaut au moyen d’échelles d’une position, d’une fortification, d’une ville ceinturée de murailles en état de siège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échalade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si en cas d’échec on tentait des travaux de mine, la pratique de l’assaut, de l’échalade puis du combat main à main fut dominante.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.