escarcelle
\ɛs.kaʁ.sɛl\
The verdict
“escarcelle” is uncommon French (frequency #70,612 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,612
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande bourse que l’on portait autrefois pendue à la ceinture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarcelle · escarcelle · French
escarcelle · rank #70,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,612
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escalopes
Nearest frequency peer: escalopes (-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 « escarcelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- erm
erm
29,392 corpus weight
- escadrilles
escadrilles
29,391 corpus weight
- escalopes
escalopes
29,390 corpus weight
- escarcelle
escarcelle
29,389 corpus weight
- eschatologie
eschatologie
29,388 corpus weight
- essaimage
essaimage
29,385 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escarcelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarcelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarcelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarcelle is uncommon French at frequency #70,612 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁ.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for escarcelle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is escarcelle, spelled E-S-C-A-R-C-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Grande bourse que l’on portait autrefois pendue à la ceinture.
- 2Porte-monnaie ; portefeuille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escarcelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il mettait dans la serrure la petite clef compliquée qu’il portait toujours sur lui dans l’escarcelle pendue à son côté
L’escarcelle ou escharcelle tirait son nom du vieux mot français eschars qui signifiait avare ou au moins économe. La bourse était surtout affectée à la dépense, l’escarcelle plutôt à la recette ; les pèlerins, qui recevaient plus qu’ils ne donnaient, ne se mettaient jamais en route sans escarcelle.
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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