escarmouches
\ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ\
The verdict
“escarmouches” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,322
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de escarmouche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarmouches · escarmouches · French
escarmouches · rank #47,322 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,322
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esmeralda
Nearest frequency peer: esmeralda (+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 « escarmouches »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entailles
entailles
52,682 corpus weight
- entendis
entendis
52,681 corpus weight
- escarmouches
escarmouches
52,679 corpus weight
- esmeralda
esmeralda
52,678 corpus weight
- Ewing
Ewing
52,677 corpus weight
- excusent
excusent
52,676 corpus weight
What this shows « escarmouches » 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 | escarmouches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #47,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escarmouches »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around escarmouches (IPA \ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,322 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de escarmouche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for escarmouches, with forms such as "ecsarmouches", "esacrmouches", and "escamrouches". 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, "escarmouche", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is escarmouches, spelled E-S-C-A-R-M-O-U-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de escarmouche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escarmouches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’en était encore qu’aux escarmouches, quand le Gaulois du 25 novembre insérait une chronique d’Octave Mirbeau, Fleurs et Fruits, consacrée aux lycées qu’on se proposait d’instituer, afin de déniaiser, de savantiser, de basbleuiser, de garçonniser et de viriliser les jeunes filles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsarmouches
- esacrmouches
- escamrouches
- escarmmouches
- escarmocuhes
- escarmoucches
- escarmoucehs
- escarmouchess
- escarmouchhes
- escarmouchse
- escarmouhces
- escarmuoches
- escaromuches
- escarrmouches
- esccarmouches
- escramouches
- esscarmouches
- secarmouches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escarmouches - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).