escarres
\ɛs.kaʁ\
The verdict
“escarres” is uncommon French (frequency #72,308 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,308
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de escarre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escarres · escarres · French
escarres · rank #72,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,308
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espionnait
Nearest frequency peer: espionnait (+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 « escarres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enveloppante
enveloppante
27,698 corpus weight
- environnent
environnent
27,697 corpus weight
- envolez
envolez
27,696 corpus weight
- escarres
escarres
27,693 corpus weight
- espionnait
espionnait
27,692 corpus weight
- essayeur
essayeur
27,691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escarres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escarres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escarres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escarres is uncommon French at frequency #72,308 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de escarre.".
escarres doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 escarres, spelled E-S-C-A-R-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de escarre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escarres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ici, il y avait aussi une crème à bien faire pénétrer dans la peau pour qu’elle reste souple, des tours de lit à installer pour les patients qui s’agitaient et se débattaient, et des escarres à prévenir chez ceux qui ne bougeaient 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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