esclave
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,391
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
esclave is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui ou celle qui par sa naissance ou par sa capture n’est pas de condition libre ou que la violence a mis sous la puissance absolue d’un maître. Pronounced \ɛs.klav\. It ranks #6,391 in French word frequency. Often confused with exclame and esclaves.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esclave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.klav\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for esclave is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.klav\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,391 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for esclave, with forms such as "ecslave", "escalve", and "escclave". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "exclame", "esclaves", "éclate", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is esclave, spelled E-S-C-L-A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui par sa naissance ou par sa capture n’est pas de condition libre ou que la violence a mis sous la puissance absolue d’un maître.
- 2Prolétaire opprimé et exploité.
- 3Personne qu'on traite comme étant entièrement à sa disposition, sans liberté aucune.
- 4Personne qui, par amour, se met dans la dépendance de quelqu’un et suit aveuglément ses volontés.
- 5Personne ayant apparemment abandonné sa liberté au profit d'une passion, d'une idée, etc.
- 6Élément vers lequel on synchronise, par opposition au maître.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecslave,escalve,escclave,esclaev,esclavve,escllave,esclvae,eslcave,essclave,seclave
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Misspelling Variants of "esclave"
Frequency rank: #6,391 in French
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