escorte

/\ɛs.kɔʁt\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,480

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

escorte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche. Pronounced \ɛs.kɔʁt\. It ranks #9,480 in French word frequency. Often confused with esport and exporte.

Key facts for escorte
PropertyValue
Headwordescorte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.kɔʁt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,480
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of escorte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for escorte is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.kɔʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,480 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for escorte, with forms such as "ecsorte", "esccorte", and "escoret". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "esport", "exporte", "exhorte", and more, 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 escorte, spelled E-S-C-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche.
  2. 2
    Vaisseau de guerre qui accompagne, dans le même dessein, des bâtiments de transport, des navires marchands, etc.
  3. 3
    Cortège qui se forme pour honorer une personne.
  4. 4
    Femme de très belle apparence qui se fait payer pour accompagner un homme.
  5. 5
    Femme ou homme prostituée.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsorte,esccorte,escoret,escorrte,escortte,escotre,escrote,esocrte,esscorte,secorte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escorte

Misspelling Variants of "escorte"

ecsorte7esccorte8escoret7escorrte8escortte8escotre7escrote7esocrte7
Misspelling Variants of "escorte"

Frequency rank: #9,480 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escorte"?
"escorte" is spelled E-S-C-O-R-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.kɔʁt\.
What does "escorte" mean?
As a noun, "escorte" means: Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche.
What words are commonly confused with "escorte"?
"escorte" is commonly confused with "esport", "exporte", "exhorte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escorte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escorte" is \ɛs.kɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escorte" come from?
"escorte" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.