écope
French, noun
écope is spelled É-C-O-P-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écope is a French feminine noun meaning “bailer, baler (for bailing out a vessel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of écoper. With an accent, écopé is a different word: “past participle of écoper”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pelle de bois creuse qui sert à vider l’eau qui entre dans un bateau”.
What does écope mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebailer, baler (for bailing out a vessel)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of écoper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pelle de bois creuse qui sert à vider l’eau qui entre dans un bateau. 2. Pelle creuse pour vidanger.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of écope
- écopes plural
- écopée feminine
- écopés masculine plural
- écopées feminine plural
- escope
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to écope
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écope in French?
écope appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).