esca
The verdict
“esca” is uncommon French (frequency #89,688 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,688
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie cryptogamique de la vigne qui provoque une nécrose du cep.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esca · esca · French
esca · rank #89,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,688
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Escalante
Nearest frequency peer: Escalante (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « esca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enviables
enviables
10,317 corpus weight
- envieuse
envieuse
10,316 corpus weight
- esca
esca
10,313 corpus weight
- Escalante
Escalante
10,312 corpus weight
- esquissa
esquissa
10,311 corpus weight
- esquissés
esquissés
10,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esca is uncommon French at frequency #89,688 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maladie cryptogamique de la vigne qui provoque une nécrose du cep.".
esca has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is esca, spelled E-S-C-A.
Definition
- 1Maladie cryptogamique de la vigne qui provoque une nécrose du cep.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Principal domaine d'application : lutte contre l’Esca ou apoplexie et l'Excoriose de la vigne, pendant le repos complet de la végétation.
Synonyms
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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