Is the word escapee used in daily conversations?

It doesn’t come up very often in my life, but it’s common enough. It might be more common to someone who works in law enforcement or something. It’s also a fairly standard way of forming a word: someone who trains is a trainee, someone who escapes is an escapee.

If you work at an escape room it probably comes up daily

I'm familiar with it but I think it's too formal to be used in daily conversations. You'll see it a lot on the news though

1. People are expected to know that word. (E.g., a 2011 low budget horror film used that word as the title.) 2. \-ee is a well known pattern in English: trainee (someone being trained to do a new job), absentee (someone who is absent from school, work, etc.), addressee (the person who a letter is addressed to), etc. Do note that while some words have -er/-ee pairs, others do not. People will be familiar with the concept of a trainer training a trainee. If you try to use "killee" to describe the victim of a killer, people will look at you funny.

\[verb\]-ee can be used to describe someone on which the verb has acted, it's a standard modification for noun forming and doesn't need unique dictionary definitions for every word it creates. Some common ones include employee, absentee, nominee, attendee, refugee, trainee, etc etc. Heres a nonstandard example I just made up: runee. Run is the verb, runner is the one who runs, and the runee is the one being run upon, such as the road. Escapee is nonstandard, acceptable, but a bit ambiguous. "Escape" has three targets -- the one escaping, the one being escaped from, and the one being escaped to. The escaper would be the one doing the escaping, the escapee could either be the one being escaped from or the one being escaped to. Given the context of the card, where the demon is wearing broken chains, I think they might have meant "escaper" but "escapee" sounded cooler. And both the words are uncommon enough that the meaning is not significantly distorted by using the wrong term

i wouldn’t say it’s used in everyday conversation, but it’s definitely a known word

Common word in context, but that context doesn't come up very often

Daily? Nah, probably not. But it's not too strange. I think most any native English speaker would understand it means "someone who escaped". In casual speech it would probably be more common to say "escaped prisoner" or something like that though.

It’s used on the news in England, usually to describe a person or animal when they’ve escaped from a prison or zoo. Sometimes informally used to describe a dropped chip or sweet… “we’ve got an escapee!”.

I don’t work in a zoo or a prison, so no, I don’t use it daily. It’s widely understood though.

Yes.

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No, but only because few daily conversations are about people (or animals) escaping from something. It's a very common word, but about a subject that people don't talk about every day.

Use? No, but only because it is rarely applicable. Know? Absolutely. We understand the meaning.

It's common, but not a core vocabulary word you'd hear daily. It usually only comes up when talking about someone who has escaped. I guess if you worked in a prison with poor security you might hear it every day 😂 You should know it but don't go crazy trying to memorize it.

If you know how the employee works, then the concept transfers. This word, individually may not come up a ton, but other -ee words for describing a person do.

Escapee is almost solely used in the context of a “prison escapee”

I say "escapee" when the cats get out of the room they are being kept in. "We have an escapee! Catch the cat!"

Yeah, I'd say most folks would be familiar with it. But more generally, any verb + ee is one who does that verb or is on the receiving end of that verb, depending on context. Like payer & payee.