ese
\ese\
The verdict
“ese” is uncommon French (frequency #59,267 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,267
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Menton, mâchoire inférieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ese · ese · French
ese · rank #59,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,267
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ESG
Nearest frequency peer: ESG (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ese »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enregistrera
enregistrera
40,739 corpus weight
- ensorcelé
ensorcelé
40,738 corpus weight
- envenime
envenime
40,737 corpus weight
- ese
ese
40,734 corpus weight
- ESG
ESG
40,733 corpus weight
- essarts
essarts
40,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ese » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ese |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ese\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ese » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ese is uncommon French at frequency #59,267 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ese\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Menton, mâchoire inférieure.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ese in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 ese, spelled E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Menton, mâchoire inférieure.
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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