Ésaü
\e.za.y\
The verdict
“Ésaü” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage de la Genèse. Il est fils d’Isaac et de Rébecca, et le frère de Jacob.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esau · Ésaü · French
Ésaü · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ésaü |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.za.y\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ésaü » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ésaü is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.za.y\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage de la Genèse. Il est fils d’Isaac et de Rébecca, et le frère de Jacob.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ésaü, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ésaü, spelled É-S-A-Ü.
Definition
- 1Personnage de la Genèse. Il est fils d’Isaac et de Rébecca, et le frère de Jacob.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.