escapade
\ɛs.ka.pad\
The verdict
“escapade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,558
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action du cheval qui s'emporte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escapade · escapade · French
escapade · rank #22,558 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,558
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ermite
Nearest frequency peer: ermite (-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 « escapade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enlevant
enlevant
77,446 corpus weight
- ermite
ermite
77,444 corpus weight
- escapade
escapade
77,443 corpus weight
- escouade
escouade
77,442 corpus weight
- estimez
estimez
77,441 corpus weight
- estival
estival
77,440 corpus weight
What this shows « escapade » 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 | escapade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ka.pad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escapade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around escapade (IPA \ɛs.ka.pad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,558 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for escapade, with forms such as "ecsapade", "esacpade", and "escaapde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "escape", "escouade", "escapades", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is escapade, spelled E-S-C-A-P-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action du cheval qui s'emporte.
- 2Action de se dérober, de manquer à son devoir pour aller se divertir.
- 3Agissement en dehors du bon sens, de ce qui est convenable.
- 4Voyage décidé pour changer du quotidien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escapade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ce qui n’est, pour des gens sensés, qu’une escapade, je maintiens le mot, est chez la jeune fille, un acte de courage et de fermeté qui indique une femme de volonté et de résolution, avec des côtés passionnés et violents que je ne soupçonnais pas en elle.
On avait beau le corriger quand les voisins le ramenait en carriole, l’habitude de ces fugues était prise. […]. Si une semaine s’écoulait sans escapade, on le voyait s’ennuyer, dépérir et fureter dans le logis pour trouver une issue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsapade
- esacpade
- escaapde
- escapadde
- escapaed
- escapdae
- escappade
- esccapade
- escpaade
- esscapade
- secapade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escapade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).