escorter
\ɛs.kɔʁ.te\
The verdict
“escorter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,809. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,809
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accompagner pour protéger, défendre, surveiller ou honorer pendant la marche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escorter · escorter · French
escorter · rank #32,809 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,809
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Esc
Nearest frequency peer: Esc (-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 « escorter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entreprenant
entreprenant
67,195 corpus weight
- envoyons
envoyons
67,194 corpus weight
- Esc
Esc
67,193 corpus weight
- escorter
escorter
67,192 corpus weight
- espérez
espérez
67,191 corpus weight
- ethernet
ethernet
67,190 corpus weight
What this shows « escorter » 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 | escorter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.kɔʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escorter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around escorter (IPA \ɛs.kɔʁ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,809 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for escorter, with forms such as "ecsorter", "esccorter", and "escoretr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "exporter", "escortes", "escort", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is escorter, spelled E-S-C-O-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Accompagner pour protéger, défendre, surveiller ou honorer pendant la marche.
- 2Accompagner isolément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escorter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je commandais au royaume, je ne prenais que trois sergents pour m’escorter. Et j’en ai trois centaines pour me mener mourir.
[…] elle ne douta plus alors qu’elle n’eût été escortée par l’inconnu depuis le premier pas qu’elle avait fait hors de chez elle, et le désir d’échapper à un espion lui prêta des forces.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsorter
- esccorter
- escoretr
- escorrter
- escorterr
- escortre
- escortter
- escotrer
- escroter
- esocrter
- esscorter
- secorter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escorter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).