Escaut
\ɛs.ko\
The verdict
“Escaut” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,054
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve européen de plaine à débit lent de 355 km de long, qui traverse la France, la Belgique et les Pays-Bas avant de se jeter en mer du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escaut · Escaut · French
Escaut · rank #27,054 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,054
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH erroné
Nearest frequency peer: erroné (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Escaut »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entendaient
entendaient
72,950 corpus weight
- entraînait
entraînait
72,949 corpus weight
- erroné
erroné
72,948 corpus weight
- Escaut
Escaut
72,947 corpus weight
- escient
escient
72,946 corpus weight
- escobar
escobar
72,945 corpus weight
What this shows « Escaut » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Escaut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Escaut »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Escaut (IPA \ɛs.ko\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,054 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Escaut, with forms such as "ecsaut", "esacut", and "escatu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "exclut", "escort", "écart", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Escaut, spelled E-S-C-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Fleuve européen de plaine à débit lent de 355 km de long, qui traverse la France, la Belgique et les Pays-Bas avant de se jeter en mer du Nord.
- 2Ancien département français dont le chef-lieu était Gand, ayant existé de 1795 à 1814.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Escaut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vent se déclara contre les Espagnols, qui perdirent des navires sur les bas-fonds des bouches de l’Escaut.
L’Escaut ne se jette point dans la Meuse, mais dans l'Océan ; tandis que la Sambre se jette dans la Meuse à Namur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsaut
- esacut
- escatu
- escautt
- esccaut
- escuat
- esscaut
- secaut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Escaut - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).