escadre
\ɛs.kadʁ\
The verdict
“escadre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,279
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe de vaisseaux de guerre sous un même chef.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escadre · escadre · French
escadre · rank #19,279 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,279
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entendues
Nearest frequency peer: entendues (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « escadre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enchantée
enchantée
80,725 corpus weight
- entendues
entendues
80,723 corpus weight
- escadre
escadre
80,722 corpus weight
- espérances
espérances
80,721 corpus weight
- exclusifs
exclusifs
80,720 corpus weight
- exonération
exonération
80,719 corpus weight
What this shows « escadre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escadre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kadʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escadre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around escadre (IPA \ɛs.kadʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,279 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for escadre, with forms such as "ecsadre", "esacdre", and "escaddre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "escale", "escape", "escadron", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is escadre, spelled E-S-C-A-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe de vaisseaux de guerre sous un même chef.
- 2Groupe important d’unités aériennes, équivalant au régiment des forces terrestres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escadre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1585, des escadres anglaises avaient attaqué, sans déclaration de guerre, Saint-Domingue et Carthagène. Une année plus tard, Drake insulta Lisbonne et détruisit, à Cadix, une flotte entière de navires de transport.
Dans la nuit du 13 au 14 novembre 1854, les signes précurseurs d’une tempête vinrent éveiller les justes appréhensions des amiraux commandant les escadres alliées devant Sébastopol.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsadre
- esacdre
- escaddre
- escader
- escadrre
- escarde
- esccadre
- escdare
- esscadre
- secadre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escadre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).