escobille

noun

The verdict

“escobille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Balayure ; ordure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-escobille · escobille · French

escobille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for escobille
PropertyValue
Headwordescobille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « escobille » en français

escobillereste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

escobille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Balayure ; ordure.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for escobille in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is escobille, spelled E-S-C-O-B-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Balayure ; ordure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how escobille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le samedi, tout devait être nettoyé, afin que le dimanche, tout soit propre. Plus tard, il y aura même une adjudication des "escobilles" (des balayures) et l'adjudicataire aura l'exclusivité du ramassage de tous les déchets.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escobille"?
"escobille" is spelled E-S-C-O-B-I-L-L-E.
What does "escobille" mean?
As a noun, "escobille" means: Balayure ; ordure.
What language does "escobille" come from?
"escobille" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list