ESB
\ø.ɛs.be\
The verdict
“ESB” is uncommon French (frequency #73,138 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,138
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esb · ESB · French
ESB · rank #73,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,138
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espa
Nearest frequency peer: espa (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ESB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envola
envola
26,868 corpus weight
- envolera
envolera
26,867 corpus weight
- ESB
ESB
26,863 corpus weight
- espa
espa
26,861 corpus weight
- esquissant
esquissant
26,860 corpus weight
- Esséniens
Esséniens
26,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ESB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ESB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ø.ɛs.be\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #73,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ESB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ESB is uncommon French at frequency #73,138 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ø.ɛs.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ESB, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ESB, spelled E-S-B.
Definition
- 1Encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine.
- 2Technique informatique intergicielle permettant à des applications hétérogènes de gérer leurs échanges en pseudo temps réel, selon des standards comme XML, de façon distribuée.
- 3Extra Special Bitter, bière très amère de tradition anglaise.
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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