escrimeur
\ɛs.kʁi.mœʁ\
The verdict
“escrimeur” is uncommon French (frequency #91,672 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,672
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat qui se battait à l'épée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escrimeur · escrimeur · French
escrimeur · rank #91,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,672
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esturgeons
Nearest frequency peer: esturgeons (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « escrimeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entravées
entravées
8,333 corpus weight
- entraînais
entraînais
8,332 corpus weight
- escrimeur
escrimeur
8,329 corpus weight
- esturgeons
esturgeons
8,328 corpus weight
- ethical
ethical
8,327 corpus weight
- Ethiopia
Ethiopia
8,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « escrimeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escrimeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kʁi.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escrimeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escrimeur is uncommon French at frequency #91,672 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kʁi.mœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for escrimeur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is escrimeur, spelled E-S-C-R-I-M-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Soldat qui se battait à l'épée.
- 2Homme qui pratique l’escrime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escrimeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 8. ie fus voir passer la Casena qui alloit en cet ordre […] : ils estoient suivis de deux Serrebochis, & de cinq autres qui avoient charge dans la Casena coḿe escrimeurs, ou qui la doivēt conduire, vestus de beaux cafferans de brocatel : […].
Les mouvements de côté continuèrent à être nécessaires, aussi longtemps que les escrimeurs ne reconnurent pas l'avantage de l’engagement des épées.
This word in other languages
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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