escorte
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escorte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche.
- 2Vaisseau de guerre qui accompagne, dans le même dessein, des bâtiments de transport, des navires marchands, etc.
- 3Cortège qui se forme pour honorer une personne.
- 4Femme de très belle apparence qui se fait payer pour accompagner un homme.
- 5Femme ou homme prostituée.
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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"
Frequency rank: #9,480 in French
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