escarpe
\ɛs.kaʁp\
The verdict
“escarpe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Talus de terre ou de maçonnerie qui délimite le fossé du côté de la place forte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarpe · escarpe · French
escarpe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarpe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁp\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarpe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarpe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Talus de terre ou de maçonnerie qui délimite le fossé du côté de la place forte.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for escarpe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 escarpe, spelled E-S-C-A-R-P-E.
Definition
- 1Talus de terre ou de maçonnerie qui délimite le fossé du côté de la place forte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escarpe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois les escarpes de l’enceinte intérieure sont beaucoup plus élevées que celles de l’enceinte extérieure.
Un cri s’éleva du rang des Boers et Samuel jeta son chapeau en l’air. Il se retourna alors vers le jeune Schalk Uys, qui était resté adossé à l'escarpe de terre.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.