Which to use
“écarté” and “escorte” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,691
- “écarté” frequency rank
- #9,480
- “escorte” frequency rank
- 21171
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | écarté | escorte |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Jeu de cartes qui se joue à deux et où l’on peut écarter tout ou partie des cartes. | Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche. |
Where the eye mixes écarté and escorte
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. écarté runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against escorte's 7 (VCCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between écarté and escorte
A purely visual mix-up. écarté (\e.kaʁ.te\) and escorte (\ɛs.kɔʁt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21171, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
écarté is recorded at frequency rank #11,691, classified as anoun, pronounced \e.kaʁ.te\. escorte is at rank #9,480, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.kɔʁt\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 21171, this pair ranks #364,519 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of écarté vs escorte
Shared letters: crt. Private to "écarté": aé. Private to "escorte": eos.
"écarté" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV · "escorte" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- escorte ← ecsorte · esccorte · escoret · escorrte · escortte · escotre · escrote · esocrte
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "écarté" and "escorte" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "écarté" or "escorte" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "écarté" and "escorte" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "écarté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "escorte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #364,519 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "écarté" and "escorte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "écarté vs écrie". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #364,519 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.