escaladant
\ɛs.ka.la.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“escaladant” is uncommon French (frequency #68,261 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,261
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de escalader.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escaladant · escaladant · French
escaladant · rank #68,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,261
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH erotic
Nearest frequency peer: erotic (-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 « escaladant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entrouvre
entrouvre
31,744 corpus weight
- equation
equation
31,742 corpus weight
- erotic
erotic
31,741 corpus weight
- escaladant
escaladant
31,740 corpus weight
- espacer
espacer
31,739 corpus weight
- estivants
estivants
31,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escaladant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escaladant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.la.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escaladant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escaladant is uncommon French at frequency #68,261 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.ka.la.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de escalader.".
Zero misspellings are on record for escaladant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is escaladant, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de escalader.
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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