escroque
\ɛs.kʁɔk\
The verdict
“escroque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui escroque, ou qui est accusée d’escroquerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escroque · escroque · French
escroque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escroque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kʁɔk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « escroque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
escroque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kʁɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui escroque, ou qui est accusée d’escroquerie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for escroque in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is escroque, spelled E-S-C-R-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui escroque, ou qui est accusée d’escroquerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escroque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monsieur, c’est donc être une escroque que de ne pas faire de vilaines choses pour un petit cadeau !
Elle ne serait sans doute jamais devenue une escroque — comme on disait dans son entourage — si elle n’avait chaleureusement accueilli en 1940 sa vieille mère qui avait dû quitter avec quelque précipitation les Ardennes pour venir chercher chez son enfant, à Elbeuf, un abri relatif.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.