escalope
\ɛs.ka.lɔp\
The verdict
“escalope” is uncommon French (frequency #55,263 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,263
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranche mince de viande blanche ou de poisson, de foie gras, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escalope · escalope · French
escalope · rank #55,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,263
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Espe
Nearest frequency peer: Espe (+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 « escalope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entourloupe
entourloupe
44,742 corpus weight
- entérinée
entérinée
44,740 corpus weight
- escalope
escalope
44,738 corpus weight
- Espe
Espe
44,737 corpus weight
- estrades
estrades
44,736 corpus weight
- Eunice
Eunice
44,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escalope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escalope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.lɔp\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escalope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escalope is uncommon French at frequency #55,263 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.ka.lɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for escalope, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is escalope, spelled E-S-C-A-L-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Tranche mince de viande blanche ou de poisson, de foie gras, etc.
- 2Main.
- 3Grandes lèvres du sexe d'une femme.
- 4Divot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escalope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une escalope de veau.
Escalope de turbot.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).