ESB

/\ø.ɛs.be\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#73,138

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ESB is aFrenchnoun. It means: Encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine. Pronounced \ø.ɛs.be\.

Key facts for ESB
PropertyValue
HeadwordESB
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ø.ɛs.be\
Letters3
Frequency rank#73,138
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ESB in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ESB is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ø.ɛs.be\. Corpus data places it at rank #73,138 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ESB in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ESB, spelled E-S-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.
  2. 2
    Technique informatique intergicielle permettant à des applications hétérogènes de gérer leurs échanges en pseudo temps réel, selon des standards comme XML, de façon distribuée.
  3. 3
    Extra Special Bitter, bière très amère de tradition anglaise.

Frequency rank: #73,138 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ESB"?
"ESB" is spelled E-S-B. The IPA pronunciation is \ø.ɛs.be\.
What does "ESB" mean?
As a noun, "ESB" means: Encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.
How do you pronounce "ESB"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ESB" is \ø.ɛs.be\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ESB" come from?
"ESB" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.