escampette
\ɛs.kɑ̃.pɛt\
The verdict
“escampette” is uncommon French (frequency #69,056 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,056
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de s’escamper, de s’enfuir discrètement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escampette · escampette · French
escampette · rank #69,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,056
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH errait
Nearest frequency peer: errait (-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 « escampette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entrelacées
entrelacées
30,947 corpus weight
- errait
errait
30,946 corpus weight
- escampette
escampette
30,945 corpus weight
- eschatologi…
eschatologique
30,944 corpus weight
- esquimau
esquimau
30,943 corpus weight
- esquives
esquives
30,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escampette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escampette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kɑ̃.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escampette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escampette is uncommon French at frequency #69,056 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kɑ̃.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de s’escamper, de s’enfuir discrètement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for escampette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is escampette, spelled E-S-C-A-M-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Action de s’escamper, de s’enfuir discrètement.
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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