échappatoire
\e.ʃa.pa.twaʁ\
The verdict
“échappatoire” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,607. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,607
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Subterfuge, moyen habile pour se tirer d’embarras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echappatoire · échappatoire · French
échappatoire · rank #29,607 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,607
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échangées
Nearest frequency peer: échangées (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « échappatoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- âpre
âpre
70,397 corpus weight
- écarlate
écarlate
70,396 corpus weight
- échangées
échangées
70,395 corpus weight
- échappatoire
échappatoire
70,394 corpus weight
- écluse
écluse
70,393 corpus weight
- éditrice
éditrice
70,392 corpus weight
What this shows « échappatoire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échappatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.pa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #29,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échappatoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around échappatoire (IPA \e.ʃa.pa.twaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,607 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for échappatoire, with forms such as "céhappatoire", "echappatoire", and "écahppatoire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is échappatoire, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Subterfuge, moyen habile pour se tirer d’embarras.
- 2Moyen de se décharger de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échappatoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] si on est repéré de loin et que l'on se trouve dans un endroit bordé de murs par exemple, ou bien en terrain découvert, il n’y a pas d’échappatoire possible et gare à la fouille !…
Les chauffards vinrent rapidement à leur hauteur, les prirent en tenaille en les fracassant sur les côtés tandis que le troisième véhicule les bloquait par l'avant. Il n'y avait plus d’échappatoire possible […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhappatoire
- echappatoire
- écahppatoire
- écchappatoire
- échapaptoire
- échapatoire
- échappaotire
- échappatiore
- échappatoier
- échappatoirre
- échappatorie
- échappattoire
- échapptaoire
- échhappatoire
- échpapatoire
- éhcappatoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échappatoire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).