essai
[e.sɛ]
The verdict
“essai” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #78,213 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,213
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensayo, experimento, intento, prueba.
Corpus desk
Index ES-essai · essai · Spanish
essai · rank #78,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,213
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH estafada
Nearest frequency peer: estafada (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “essai”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- escrutinios
escrutinios
21,792 corpus weight
- escultora
escultora
21,791 corpus weight
- essai
essai
21,788 corpus weight
- estafada
estafada
21,787 corpus weight
- estercolero
estercolero
21,786 corpus weight
- estila
estila
21,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “essai” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [e.sɛ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “essai” en español
Rare enough to double-check
essai is uncommon Spanish at frequency #78,213 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [e.sɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
essai has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is essai, spelled E-S-S-A-I.
Definition
- 1Ensayo, experimento, intento, prueba.
- 2Ensayo (composición de longitud media que explora una cuestión o sujeto particular).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a succédé après plusieurs essais.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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