escarpement
\ɛs.kaʁ.pə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“escarpement” is uncommon French (frequency #54,566 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,566
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pente raide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarpement · escarpement · French
escarpement · rank #54,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,566
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH erf
Nearest frequency peer: erf (-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 « escarpement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entrecoupée
entrecoupée
45,440 corpus weight
- entrevu
entrevu
45,439 corpus weight
- erf
erf
45,436 corpus weight
- escarpement
escarpement
45,435 corpus weight
- essential
essential
45,433 corpus weight
- estompent
estompent
45,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escarpement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarpement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.pə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarpement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarpement is uncommon French at frequency #54,566 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁ.pə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for escarpement, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is escarpement, spelled E-S-C-A-R-P-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Pente raide.
- 2État de ce qui est escarpé, pente raide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escarpement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l’escarpement voisin de la verticale, croissent dans les fentes ou les petits replats ménagés par la cassure géométrique de la roche […]
La route nationale de Nîmes à Mende m’amène à Anduze, un chef-lieu de canton de l’arrondissement d’Alès, encaissé entre les escarpements dont la base se verdit d’oliviers.
This word in other languages
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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