escabeau
\ɛs.ka.bo\
The verdict
“escabeau” is uncommon French (frequency #57,251 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,251
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Siège de bois sans bras ni dossier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escabeau · escabeau · French
escabeau · rank #57,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,251
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entomologique
Nearest frequency peer: entomologique (-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 « escabeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endurant
endurant
42,754 corpus weight
- ensevelie
ensevelie
42,752 corpus weight
- entomologiq…
entomologique
42,751 corpus weight
- escabeau
escabeau
42,750 corpus weight
- escarpés
escarpés
42,749 corpus weight
- estampillés
estampillés
42,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escabeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escabeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.bo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escabeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escabeau is uncommon French at frequency #57,251 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.ka.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for escabeau, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is escabeau, spelled E-S-C-A-B-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Siège de bois sans bras ni dossier.
- 2Échelle autoportante grâce à sa forme en V inversé lui donnant en tout quatre pieds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escabeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dit à sa femme d’approprier leur chambre, qu’est par en bas ; il fait du feu dans la cheminée, allume deux chandelles, place deux chaises d’un côté de l’âtre, et met de l’autre côté un escabeau.
Un tapissier… Ce n’est pas la peine de s’imaginer des scénarios tordus délirants avec des gendarmes ultra-sexys faisant une haie d’honneur, me présentant un homme torse nu en salopette sur un escabeau avec son couteau à maroufler dans la main droite et une rose entre les dents.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).