Which to use
“escorte” and “escortes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,480
- “escorte” frequency rank
- #45,021
- “escortes” frequency rank
- 54501
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | escorte | escortes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troupe généralement armée qui accompagne une personne, un convoi, des bagages pour les protéger ou les surveiller pendant la marche. | Pluriel de escorte. |
Same sound, different letters: escorte vs escortes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. escorte runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against escortes's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - escorte and escortes
This is the hard kind. escorte 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 1 extra letter(s) - “escorte” sits inside “escortes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54501, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
escorte is recorded at frequency rank #9,480, 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 54501, this pair ranks #133,584 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of escorte vs escortes
Shared letters: ceorst. Private to "escorte": -. Private to "escortes": -.
"escorte" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "escortes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "escorte" and "escortes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "escorte" 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 "escorte" 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 #133,584 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "escorte" 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 #133,584 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.