escarpée
\ɛs.kaʁ.pe\
The verdict
“escarpée” is uncommon French (frequency #57,929 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,929
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de escarpé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarpee · escarpée · French
escarpée · rank #57,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escorts
Nearest frequency peer: escorts (+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 « escarpée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entraîneront
entraîneront
42,075 corpus weight
- entreposées
entreposées
42,074 corpus weight
- escarpée
escarpée
42,072 corpus weight
- escorts
escorts
42,071 corpus weight
- Espelette
Espelette
42,070 corpus weight
- estima
estima
42,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escarpée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarpée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarpée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarpée is uncommon French at frequency #57,929 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁ.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de escarpé.".
escarpée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 escarpée, spelled E-S-C-A-R-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de escarpé.
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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