échappée
The verdict
“échappée” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #15,543 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,543
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Action imprudente par laquelle on s’écarte de son devoir, de sa position.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échappée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échappée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échappée is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃa.pe\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,543 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for échappée, with forms such as "céhappée", "echappee", and "écahppée". 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. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "écharpe", "échoppe", "échapper", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is échappée, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action imprudente par laquelle on s’écarte de son devoir, de sa position.
- 2Espace ménagé pour le tournant des voitures à leur entrée dans une cour, dans une remise ou dans un garage.
- 3Espace qu’on laisse entre un escalier et la voûte ou le plafond.
- 4Hauteur comprise entre une volée d'escalier et son couvrement.
- 5Échappée de lumière ; échappée de vue.
- 6Action de distancer les autres coureurs.
- 7Développement extérieur au sujet principal.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: céhappée,echappee,écahppée,écchappée,échappeé,échapée,échapépe,échhappée,échpapée,éhcappée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échappée — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "échappée"
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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Using “échappée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-A-P-P-É-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ʃa.pe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “écharpe” — see the side-by-side comparison. échappée vs écharpe
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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