escalator
French, noun/ɛs.ka.la.tɔʁ/
escalator is spelled E-S-C-A-L-A-T-O-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escalator is a French masculine noun meaning “escalator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Escalateur, escalier mécanique”.
What does escalator mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineescalator
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Escalateur, escalier mécanique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escalator
- escalators plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escalator?
- /ɛs.ka.la.tɔʁ/
- \ɛs.ka.la.tɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escalator
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escalator in French?
escalator appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).