escouade

/\ɛs.kwad\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#22,559

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

escouade is aFrenchnoun. It means: Subdivision d’une section ou d’un peloton sous les ordres d’un caporal ou d’un brigadier. Pronounced \ɛs.kwad\. Often confused with escalade and escapade.

Key facts for escouade
PropertyValue
Headwordescouade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.kwad\
Letters8
Frequency rank#22,559
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for escouade is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.kwad\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,559 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 escouade, with forms such as "ecsouade", "esccouade", and "escoaude". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "escalade", "escapade", 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 escouade, spelled E-S-C-O-U-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Subdivision d’une section ou d’un peloton sous les ordres d’un caporal ou d’un brigadier.
  2. 2
    Unité élémentaire de combat, dans la cavalerie.
  3. 3
    Groupe de personnes qui agissent de concert.
  4. 4
    Unité, brigade ou équipe de police, parfois spécialisée.
  5. 5
    Vague d’insectes nécrophages qui se succèdent sur un cadavre exposé à l’air libre en fonction du stade de décomposition.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsouade,esccouade,escoaude,escouadde,escouaed,escoudae,escuoade,esocuade,esscouade,secouade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escouade

Misspelling Variants of "escouade"

ecsouade8esccouade9escoaude8escouadde9escouaed8escoudae8escuoade8esocuade8
Misspelling Variants of "escouade"

Frequency rank: #22,559 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escouade"?
"escouade" is spelled E-S-C-O-U-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.kwad\.
What does "escouade" mean?
As a noun, "escouade" means: Subdivision d’une section ou d’un peloton sous les ordres d’un caporal ou d’un brigadier.
What words are commonly confused with "escouade"?
"escouade" is commonly confused with "escalade", "escapade". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escouade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escouade" is \ɛs.kwad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escouade" come from?
"escouade" 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.