espacer
\ɛs.pa.se\
The verdict
“espacer” is uncommon French (frequency #68,262 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,262
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ranger plusieurs choses de manière à laisser entre elles des espaces déterminés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espacer · espacer · French
espacer · rank #68,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,262
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escaladant
Nearest frequency peer: escaladant (-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 « espacer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- equation
equation
31,742 corpus weight
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erotic
31,741 corpus weight
- escaladant
escaladant
31,740 corpus weight
- espacer
espacer
31,739 corpus weight
- estivants
estivants
31,738 corpus weight
- eugenia
eugenia
31,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « espacer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pa.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « espacer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
espacer is uncommon French at frequency #68,262 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.pa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for espacer in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is espacer, spelled E-S-P-A-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ranger plusieurs choses de manière à laisser entre elles des espaces déterminés.
- 2Ajuster l’espace entre les mots, les lignes, et quelquefois même les lettres.
- 3Répartir selon des intervalles de temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espacer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jardinier espacera régulièrement ces arbres.
— Mais nous sommes déjà dans les faubourgs. Les maisons s'espacent, se reculent, s'adossent à la rivière ou à la montagne.
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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