Esch
\æʃ\
The verdict
“Esch” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,284
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esch · Esch · French
Esch · rank #39,284 · 6 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,284
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entachée
Nearest frequency peer: entachée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Esch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enjoué
enjoué
60,720 corpus weight
- enracinement
enracinement
60,719 corpus weight
- entachée
entachée
60,718 corpus weight
- Esch
Esch
60,717 corpus weight
- exaltant
exaltant
60,716 corpus weight
- excusée
excusée
60,715 corpus weight
What this shows « Esch » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Esch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \æʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Esch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Esch (IPA \æʃ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,284 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Esch, with forms such as "ecsh", "escch", and "eschh". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Est", "etc", "euh", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Esch, spelled E-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsh
- escch
- eschh
- eshc
- essch
- sech
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Esch - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).