escortant
\ɛs.kɔʁ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“escortant” is uncommon French (frequency #96,894 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,894
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de escorter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escortant · escortant · French
escortant · rank #96,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,894
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esclaffe
Nearest frequency peer: esclaffe (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « escortant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entrejeu
entrejeu
3,114 corpus weight
- esclaffe
esclaffe
3,108 corpus weight
- escortant
escortant
3,107 corpus weight
- espiègles
espiègles
3,105 corpus weight
- esto
esto
3,104 corpus weight
- estudiantin
estudiantin
3,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escortant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escortant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.kɔʁ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escortant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escortant is uncommon French at frequency #96,894 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.kɔʁ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de escorter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for escortant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is escortant, spelled E-S-C-O-R-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de escorter.
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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