échapper de
The verdict
“échapper de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cesser, par la force ou par la fuite, par un mouvement violent ou adroit, d’être où l’on était, où l’on était retenu,
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échapper de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.pe də\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “échapper de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for échapper de is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʃa.pe də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for échapper de 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 échapper de, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-E-R- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cesser, par la force ou par la fuite, par un mouvement violent ou adroit, d’être où l’on était, où l’on était retenu,
- 2Prendre la fuite, se sauver, s’évader.
- 3En parlant d’une chose, sortir d’un lieu, d’un endroit, d’une autre chose où elle était retenue, enfermée, contenue.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-C-H-A-P-P-E-R- -D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.ʃa.pe də\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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