Which to use
“escale” and “escales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,580
- “escale” frequency rank
- #26,723
- “escales” frequency rank
- 38303
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | escale | escales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Endroit où des navires peuvent relâcher. | Pluriel de escale. |
Same sound, different letters: escale vs escales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: escale vs escales
This is the hard kind. escale and escales are pronounced identically (\ɛs.kal\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “escale” sits inside “escales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38303, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
escale is recorded at frequency rank #11,580, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.kal\. escales is at rank #26,723, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.kal\.
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 38303, this pair ranks #256,217 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of escale vs escales
Shared letters: acels. Private to "escale": -. Private to "escales": -.
"escale" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "escales" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "escale" for "escales" ever safe?
Frequency check: "escale" vs "escales" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "escale" / "escales". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "escale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "escales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #256,217 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "escale" and "escales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "escales vs escape". 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 #256,217 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.