Escalante
The verdict
“Escalante” is uncommon French (frequency #89,689 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,689
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escalante · Escalante · French
Escalante · rank #89,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,689
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esca
Nearest frequency peer: esca (-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 « Escalante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enviables
enviables
10,317 corpus weight
- envieuse
envieuse
10,316 corpus weight
- esca
esca
10,313 corpus weight
- Escalante
Escalante
10,312 corpus weight
- esquissa
esquissa
10,311 corpus weight
- esquissés
esquissés
10,310 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Escalante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Escalante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Escalante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Escalante is uncommon French at frequency #89,689 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Escalante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Escalante, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Escalante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ce que filme Amat Escalante, jusqu’ici connu pour des thrillers plutôt violents, de Los Bastardos à Heli (prix de la mise en scène à Cannes en 2014) en passant par la série Narcos, Mexico.
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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