escamoter
\ɛs.ka.mɔ.te\
The verdict
“escamoter” is uncommon French (frequency #92,703 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,703
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire disparaître quelque chose par un tour de main, sans que les spectateurs ne s’en aperçoivent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escamoter · escamoter · French
escamoter · rank #92,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,703
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escande
Nearest frequency peer: escande (+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 « escamoter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envisagera
envisagera
7,302 corpus weight
- EPC
EPC
7,300 corpus weight
- escamoter
escamoter
7,298 corpus weight
- escande
escande
7,297 corpus weight
- esculape
esculape
7,296 corpus weight
- essentialis…
essentialiste
7,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escamoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escamoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.mɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escamoter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escamoter is uncommon French at frequency #92,703 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.ka.mɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for escamoter in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is escamoter, spelled E-S-C-A-M-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire disparaître quelque chose par un tour de main, sans que les spectateurs ne s’en aperçoivent.
- 2Cacher quelque chose ou quelqu'un, pour tromper.
- 3Camoufler, cacher, dissimuler (sans idée de tromperie).
- 4Dérober subtilement, sans qu’on ne s’en aperçoive.
- 5Faire disparaître un organe saillant à l’intérieur d’une cloison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escamoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Outre ses muscades, il escamota des florins, des bagues, des montres d’argent, et jusqu’au canari de Marie-Joseph, l’hôtesse du Bon Couvet, qu’on retrouva dans le chapeau du mayeur Sans-Souci.
Ce prestidigitateur escamote bien.
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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