esculent
\ɛs.ky.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“esculent” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mangeable, comestible, nourrissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esculent · esculent · French
esculent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" 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 | esculent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛs.ky.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
esculent is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛs.ky.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mangeable, comestible, nourrissant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for esculent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is esculent, spelled E-S-C-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Mangeable, comestible, nourrissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esculent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] il lui faut une terre douce, fournie de racines esculentes, et surtout bien peuplée d'insectes et de vers, dont elle fait sa principale nourriture.
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.