esca
The verdict
“esca” is uncommon French (frequency #89,688 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,688
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maladie cryptogamique de la vigne qui provoque une nécrose du cep.
| 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) |
Where “esca” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
esca is uncommon French at frequency #89,688 among 201,161 “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.
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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Using “esca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-S-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.