escroqueur
\ɛs.kʁɔ.kœʁ\
The verdict
“escroqueur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui escroque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-escroqueur · escroqueur · French
escroqueur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | escroqueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kʁɔ.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
escroqueur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kʁɔ.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui escroque.".
Zero misspellings are on record for escroqueur 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is escroqueur, spelled E-S-C-R-O-Q-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui escroque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escroqueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour mon compte, je n'ai pas manqué une occasion de dénoncer au bon sens public ces escroqueurs de renommée.
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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.