escale
\ɛs.kal\
The verdict
“escale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,580
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit où des navires peuvent relâcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escale · escale · French
escale · rank #11,580 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,580
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH environnement…
Nearest frequency peer: environnementales (-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 « escale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- engrais
engrais
88,423 corpus weight
- environneme…
environnementales
88,422 corpus weight
- escale
escale
88,421 corpus weight
- fantasmes
fantasmes
88,420 corpus weight
- fashion
fashion
88,419 corpus weight
- fiabilité
fiabilité
88,418 corpus weight
What this shows « escale » 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 | escale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around escale (IPA \ɛs.kal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,580 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for escale, with forms such as "ecsale", "esacle", and "escael". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "étale", "espace", "essaie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 escale, spelled E-S-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Endroit où des navires peuvent relâcher.
- 2Action de relâcher dans un endroit propre au mouillage.
- 3Endroit ou moment où les aéronefs font étape dans un voyage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a une escale.
Il y a escale à cet endroit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsale
- esacle
- escael
- escalle
- esccale
- esclae
- esscale
- secale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escale - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).