escargots
\ɛs.kaʁ.ɡo\
The verdict
“escargots” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,850
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de escargot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escargots · escargots · French
escargots · rank #22,850 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,850
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH era
Nearest frequency peer: era (-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 « escargots »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entraînera
entraînera
77,153 corpus weight
- era
era
77,152 corpus weight
- escargots
escargots
77,151 corpus weight
- estimées
estimées
77,150 corpus weight
- exp
exp
77,149 corpus weight
- Fabio
Fabio
77,148 corpus weight
What this shows « escargots » 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 | escargots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escargots »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around escargots (IPA \ɛs.kaʁ.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,850 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de escargot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for escargots, with forms such as "ecsargots", "esacrgots", and "escagrots". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "escargot", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is escargots, spelled E-S-C-A-R-G-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de escargot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escargots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux hommes consultèrent la carte : ils commandèrent chacun une douzaine d’escargots qu’ils arrosèrent de muscadet.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsargots
- esacrgots
- escagrots
- escarggots
- escargost
- escargotss
- escargotts
- escargtos
- escarogts
- escarrgots
- esccargots
- escragots
- esscargots
- secargots
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escargots - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).