échappé

\e.ʃa.pe\

/\e.ʃa.pe\/ noun

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The verdict

“échappé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,450
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fou qui a été enfermé ou qui pourrait l’être.

Corpus desk

Index FR-echappe · échappé · French

échappé · rank #6,450 · 9 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,450
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH weekend

Nearest frequency peer: weekend (-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 « échappé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « échappé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

échappé vs écharpe
71% similar
échappé vs échoppe
71% similar
échappé vs échapper
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for échappé
PropertyValue
Headwordéchappé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ʃa.pe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,450
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échappé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).échappése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « weekend » (#6,449), « vaisseaux » (#6,448), « élaboration » (#6,452). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « échappé » est au #6,450. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around échappé (IPA \e.ʃa.pe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,450 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for échappé, with forms such as "céhappé", "echappe", and "écahppé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "écharpe", "échoppe", "échapper", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is échappé, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fou qui a été enfermé ou qui pourrait l’être.
  2. 2
    Personne qui s’est sauvée du bagne, d’une prison, etc.
  3. 3
    Hauteur mesurée à la verticale entre le nez de marche et le plafond. On dit aussi échappement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how échappé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un échappé de Charenton, ou des petites maisons.
  2. Un échappé du bagne, de prison.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • céhappé
  • echappe
  • écahppé
  • écchappé
  • échapé
  • échapép
  • échhappé
  • échpapé
  • éhcappé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échappé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

céhappé2echappe2écahppé2écchappé1échapé1échapép2échhappé1échpapé2
Edit distance from "échappé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "échappé"?
"échappé" is spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-É. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ʃa.pe\.
What does "échappé" mean?
As a noun, "échappé" means: Fou qui a été enfermé ou qui pourrait l’être.
What words are commonly confused with "échappé"?
"échappé" is commonly confused with "écharpe", "échoppe", "échapper". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "échappé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "échappé" is \e.ʃa.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "échappé" come from?
"échappé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "échappé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

weekend#6,449terreur#6,445évasion#6,456soumise#6,442

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

angoisse9 variantsappétit9 variantsrocher9 variantsMorgan9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list