escrime

\ɛs.kʁim\

/\ɛs.kʁim\/ noun

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The verdict

“escrime” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,372
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de faire des armes ou exercice à l’épée, au sabre, au fleuret, à la baïonnette, etc., par lequel on apprend à se battre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-escrime · escrime · French

escrime · rank #15,372 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,372
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH espèrent

Nearest frequency peer: espèrent (+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 « escrime »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « escrime » 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).

escrime vs estime
71% similar
escrime vs Estrie
57% similar
escrime vs exprime
71% similar

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

Key facts for escrime
PropertyValue
Headwordescrime
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.kʁim\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,372
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « escrime »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).escrimese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « espèrent » (#15,373), « estimait » (#15,374), « European » (#15,375). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « escrime » est au #15,372. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around escrime (IPA \ɛs.kʁim\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,372 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Art de faire des armes ou exercice à l’épée, au sabre, au fleuret, à la baïonnette, etc., par lequel on apprend à se battre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for escrime, with forms such as "ecsrime", "esccrime", and "escirme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "estime", "Estrie", "exprime", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is escrime, spelled E-S-C-R-I-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de faire des armes ou exercice à l’épée, au sabre, au fleuret, à la baïonnette, etc., par lequel on apprend à se battre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ce cabinet était la demeure favorite du roi ; c’était là qu’il prenait ses leçons d’escrime avec Pompée, et ses leçons de poésie avec Ronsard.
  2. Le trompement, ou dérobement, est l'une des plus grosses difficultés de l’escrime ; c'est presque le critérium du parfait escrimeur.

This word in other languages

fencing(English)esgrima(Español)Fechten(Deutsch)esgrima(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ecsrime
  • esccrime
  • escirme
  • escriem
  • escrimme
  • escrmie
  • escrrime
  • esrcime
  • esscrime
  • secrime

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escrime - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ecsrime2esccrime1escirme2escriem2escrimme1escrmie2escrrime1esrcime2
Edit distance from "escrime"

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 "escrime"?
"escrime" is spelled E-S-C-R-I-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.kʁim\.
What does "escrime" mean?
As a noun, "escrime" means: Art de faire des armes ou exercice à l’épée, au sabre, au fleuret, à la baïonnette, etc., par lequel on apprend à se battre.
What words are commonly confused with "escrime"?
"escrime" is commonly confused with "estime", "Estrie", "exprime". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "escrime"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escrime" is \ɛs.kʁim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "escrime" come from?
"escrime" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

déclara#15,360fresque#15,388gallois#15,392diables#15,351

Similar misspelling depth

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

European10 variantsexotique10 variantsdéchet10 variantsignoble10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list