escarpements
\ɛs.kaʁ.pə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“escarpements” is uncommon French (frequency #81,133 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,133
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de escarpement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarpements · escarpements · French
escarpements · rank #81,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,133
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH erra
Nearest frequency peer: erra (-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 « escarpements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enverras
enverras
18,872 corpus weight
- ergothérape…
ergothérapeute
18,870 corpus weight
- erra
erra
18,869 corpus weight
- escarpements
escarpements
18,868 corpus weight
- escortent
escortent
18,867 corpus weight
- estran
estran
18,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escarpements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarpements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ.pə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarpements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarpements is uncommon French at frequency #81,133 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁ.pə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de escarpement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for escarpements in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 escarpements, spelled E-S-C-A-R-P-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de escarpement.
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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