escalator
\ɛs.ka.la.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“escalator” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,452
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escalateur, escalier mécanique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escalator · escalator · French
escalator · rank #44,452 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,452
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espanyol
Nearest frequency peer: espanyol (+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 « escalator »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entamées
entamées
55,553 corpus weight
- EPCI
EPCI
55,552 corpus weight
- escalator
escalator
55,549 corpus weight
- espanyol
espanyol
55,548 corpus weight
- eurodéputé
eurodéputé
55,547 corpus weight
- exigeaient
exigeaient
55,546 corpus weight
What this shows « escalator » 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 | escalator |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.la.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escalator »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around escalator (IPA \ɛs.ka.la.tɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,452 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Escalateur, escalier mécanique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for escalator, with forms such as "ecsalator", "esaclator", and "escaaltor". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "escalader", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 escalator, spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Escalateur, escalier mécanique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escalator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est immense, le trottoir roulant de la station Montparnasse. On s’y engage avec la même appréhension que sur les escalators des magasins.
Je suis immobile sur l’escalator de la Porte, bloqué par une grosse femme stationnée à gauche un peu plus loin devant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsalator
- esaclator
- escaaltor
- escalaotr
- escalatorr
- escalatro
- escalattor
- escallator
- escaltaor
- esccalator
- esclaator
- esscalator
- secalator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escalator - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).