escarpées
\ɛs.kaʁ.pe\
The verdict
“escarpées” is uncommon French (frequency #52,671 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,671
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de escarpé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarpees · escarpées · French
escarpées · rank #52,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,671
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH equivalent
Nearest frequency peer: equivalent (-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 « escarpées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ente
Ente
47,333 corpus weight
- envisagerait
envisagerait
47,332 corpus weight
- equivalent
equivalent
47,331 corpus weight
- escarpées
escarpées
47,330 corpus weight
- espadrilles
espadrilles
47,329 corpus weight
- ethnicité
ethnicité
47,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escarpées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarpées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.pe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarpées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarpées is uncommon French at frequency #52,671 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁ.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de escarpé.".
escarpées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 escarpées, spelled E-S-C-A-R-P-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de escarpé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escarpées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les trucs qu’il avait vu pratiquer, toutes les ficelles enregistrées au cours d’une expérience de camionneur déjà longue, des pistes pourries du llano vénézuélien aux pentes escarpées des Andes, il les passa en revue, et un par un les rejeta : ça ne collait pas.
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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