escorte

\ɛs.kɔʁt\

/\ɛs.kɔʁt\/ noun

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The verdict

“escorte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,480
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche.

Corpus desk

Index FR-escorte · escorte · French

escorte · rank #9,480 · 10 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,480
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH entame

Nearest frequency peer: entame (-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 « escorte »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « escorte » 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).

escorte vs esport
71% similar
escorte vs exporte
71% similar
escorte vs exhorte
71% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escorte »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.escortese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « entame » (#9,479), « exposées » (#9,481), « engagent » (#9,478). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « escorte » est au #9,480. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around escorte (IPA \ɛs.kɔʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,480 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for escorte, with forms such as "ecsorte", "esccorte", and "escoret". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "esport", "exporte", "exhorte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is escorte, spelled E-S-C-O-R-T-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […], et, mettant son épée aux mains d’un page, seule escorte dont il voulût se faire accompagner, il prit le chemin du Louvre.
  2. Les convois funèbres se succédaient, avec leurs escortes de sous-officiers boueux et de rosses efflanquées.

Synonyms

prostituéprostituée

This word in other languages

escort(English)Eskorte(Deutsch)comitiva(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ecsorte
  • esccorte
  • escoret
  • escorrte
  • escortte
  • escotre
  • escrote
  • esocrte
  • esscorte
  • secorte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escorte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ecsorte2esccorte1escoret2escorrte1escortte1escotre2escrote2esocrte2
Edit distance from "escorte"

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 "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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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

emparer#9,477divisée#9,471coûteux#9,460légères#9,508

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

commente10 variantsmenacée10 variantsmignonne10 variantsarrivées10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list