Which to use
“escort” and “escortes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,539
- “escort” frequency rank
- #45,021
- “escortes” frequency rank
- 68560
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | escort | escortes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui vend son temps, ainsi que des prestations sexuelles, à des clients. | Pluriel de escorte. |
Same sound, different letters: escort vs escortes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - escort / escortes
This is the hard kind. escort and escortes are pronounced identically (\ɛs.kɔʁt\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “escort” sits inside “escortes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68560, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
escort is recorded at frequency rank #23,539, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.kɔʁt\. escortes is at rank #45,021, 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 68560, this pair ranks #58,667 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of escort vs escortes
Shared letters: ceorst. Private to "escort": -. Private to "escortes": -.
"escort" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC · "escortes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "escort" and "escortes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "escort" or "escortes"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "escort" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "escortes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #58,667 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "escort" and "escortes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "escortes vs exportés". 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 #58,667 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.