escompte
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,280
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
escompte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Retenue faite par celui qui avance avant l’échéance une somme due à quelqu’un. Pronounced \ɛs.kɔ̃t\. Often confused with escorte and estompe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escompte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for escompte is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.kɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,280 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for escompte, with forms such as "ecsompte", "esccompte", and "escmopte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "escorte", "estompe", 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 escompte, spelled E-S-C-O-M-P-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Retenue faite par celui qui avance avant l’échéance une somme due à quelqu’un.
- 2Remise faite au payeur par celui qui reçoit un paiement avant l’échéance, ou avant le terme fixé par les usages du commerce.
- 3Opération de bourse à l’aide de laquelle l’acheteur à terme peut se faire livrer à toute époque avant l’échéance les titres achetés ferme ou à prime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecsompte,esccompte,escmopte,escommpte,escompet,escomppte,escomptte,escomtpe,escopmte,esocmpte,esscompte,secompte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escompte
Misspelling Variants of "escompte"
Frequency rank: #38,280 in French
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