escort
\ɛs.kɔʁt\
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
- engrenage
engrenage
76,465 corpus weight
- enseignée
enseignée
76,464 corpus weight
- entamée
entamée
76,463 corpus weight
- escort
escort
76,462 corpus weight
- ets
ets
76,460 corpus weight
- excréments
excréments
76,459 corpus weight
What this shows « escort » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escort »
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
- 1Personne qui vend son temps, ainsi que des prestations sexuelles, à des clients.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« 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. »
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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).