échappée de vue
The verdict
“échappée de vue” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Vue resserrée que l’on a tout à coup entre des collines, des bois, des maisons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échappée de vue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.pe də vy\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échappée de vue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échappée de vue is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃa.pe də vy\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vue resserrée que l’on a tout à coup entre des collines, des bois, des maisons.".
No misspelling variants are generated for échappée de vue in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de vue, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-É-E- -D-E- -V-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vue resserrée que l’on a tout à coup entre des collines, des bois, des maisons.
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.
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Using “échappée de vue”
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- -D-E- -V-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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