ESG
\ø.ɛs.ʒe\
The verdict
“ESG” is uncommon French (frequency #59,268 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,268
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à des aspects environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esg · ESG · French
ESG · rank #59,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,268
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ese
Nearest frequency peer: ese (-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 « ESG »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- esseulé
esseulé
40,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ESG » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ESG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ø.ɛs.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ESG » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ESG is uncommon French at frequency #59,268 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ø.ɛs.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à des aspects environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ESG, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ESG, spelled E-S-G.
Definition
- 1Relatif à des aspects environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ESG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les critères ESG privilégiés, celui concernant l'environnement arrive en tête, avec des thématiques telles que le changement climatique, l'eau, la réduction des déchets plastiques ou l'économie circulaire.
Elle investit dans de nombreuses entreprises et vote selon plusieurs critères ESG : environnementaux, sociaux et de bonne gouvernance.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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