escort

\ɛs.kɔʁt\

/\ɛs.kɔʁt\/ noun

The verdict

“escort” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,539. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,539
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui vend son temps, ainsi que des prestations sexuelles, à des clients.

Corpus desk

Index FR-escort · escort · French

escort · rank #23,539 · 9 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,539
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH entamée

Nearest frequency peer: entamée (-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 « escort »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « escort » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

escort vs essor
67% similar
escort vs export
67% similar
escort vs esport
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for escort
PropertyValue
Headwordescort
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.kɔʁt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#23,539
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escort »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).escortse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « entamée » (#23,538), « enseignée » (#23,537), « ets » (#23,541). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « escort » est au #23,539. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around escort (IPA \ɛs.kɔʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,539 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui vend son temps, ainsi que des prestations sexuelles, à des clients.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for escort, with forms such as "ecsort", "esccort", and "escorrt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "essor", "export", "esport", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is escort, spelled E-S-C-O-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui vend son temps, ainsi que des prestations sexuelles, à des clients.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. « Vous avez pensé aux putes ? » J’en restai bouche bée, et sans doute ma bouche s’ouvrit-elle effectivement, je dus lui donner une impression d’ahurissement complet, parce qu’il reprit : « Enfin maintenant on appelle ça des escorts, mais ça revient au même. »
  2. Une escort et actrice porno, par ailleurs militante du Syndicat du travail sexuel (Strass), s’est filmée le 11 mars, au sein de la mairie de Paris en plein acte sexuel, avec, selon elle, un client, durant la Nuit des fiertés.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ecsort
  • esccort
  • escorrt
  • escortt
  • escotr
  • escrot
  • esocrt
  • esscort
  • secort

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escort - 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.

ecsort2esccort1escorrt1escortt1escotr2escrot2esocrt2esscort1
Edit distance from "escort"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escort"?
"escort" is spelled E-S-C-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.kɔʁt\.
What does "escort" mean?
As a noun, "escort" means: Personne qui vend son temps, ainsi que des prestations sexuelles, à des clients.
What words are commonly confused with "escort"?
"escort" is commonly confused with "essor", "export", "esport". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escort"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escort" is \ɛs.kɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escort" come from?
"escort" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "escort", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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 (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list