esa
\ˈesːa\
The verdict
“esa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,994) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,994
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Essai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esa · esa · French
esa · rank #25,994 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,994
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essayaient
Nearest frequency peer: essayaient (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « esa »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- encadre
encadre
74,012 corpus weight
- enchère
enchère
74,011 corpus weight
- enlevez
enlevez
74,010 corpus weight
- esa
esa
74,007 corpus weight
- essayaient
essayaient
74,006 corpus weight
- Everest
Everest
74,003 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « esa » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈesːa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « esa »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for esa is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "Eu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈesːa\. Frequency #25,994 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Essai.".
No misspelling variants are generated for esa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "Eu", "ez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is esa, spelled E-S-A.
Definition
- 1Essai.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).