Ésope
\e.zɔp\
The verdict
“Ésope” is uncommon French (frequency #78,082 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,082
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Célèbre fabuliste de la Grèce antique, qui a notamment servi d’inspiration à Jean de La Fontaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esope · Ésope · French
Ésope · rank #78,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,082
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éroder
Nearest frequency peer: éroder (-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 « Ésope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épiloguer
épiloguer
21,924 corpus weight
- époustoufla…
époustouflants
21,923 corpus weight
- éroder
éroder
21,920 corpus weight
- Ésope
Ésope
21,919 corpus weight
- éthérée
éthérée
21,918 corpus weight
- étirés
étirés
21,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ésope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ésope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.zɔp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ésope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ésope is uncommon French at frequency #78,082 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.zɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Célèbre fabuliste de la Grèce antique, qui a notamment servi d’inspiration à Jean de La Fontaine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ésope, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Ésope, spelled É-S-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Célèbre fabuliste de la Grèce antique, qui a notamment servi d’inspiration à Jean de La Fontaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ésope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers la fin du siècle dernier, le vélocifère, prédécesseur de la diligence et des messageries, débarquait à Paris un provençal, plein de verve et d'entrain, né dans la ville d'Aix, et bossu, comme Ésope, par devant et par derrière.
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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