escalades
\ɛs.ka.lad\
The verdict
“escalades” is uncommon French (frequency #86,688 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,688
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de escalade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escalades · escalades · French
escalades · rank #86,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,688
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Epsom
Nearest frequency peer: Epsom (-2 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 « escalades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enviée
enviée
13,318 corpus weight
- Epsom
Epsom
13,315 corpus weight
- escalades
escalades
13,313 corpus weight
- europea
europea
13,311 corpus weight
- eurosceptic…
euroscepticisme
13,310 corpus weight
- excommuniés
excommuniés
13,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escalades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escalades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.lad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escalades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escalades is uncommon French at frequency #86,688 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.ka.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de escalade.".
escalades doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is escalades, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de escalade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escalades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour gravir aisément la rue du Petit-Pavé, il eût fallu des motos de grasstrack ou de trial, et des pilotes habitués aux escalades de pentes arides et savonneuses.
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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