escobille
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escobille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escobille » en français
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
- 1Balayure ; ordure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escobille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.