espionnais
\ɛs.pjɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“espionnais” is uncommon French (frequency #93,744 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,744
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espionnais · espionnais · French
espionnais · rank #93,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,744
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Essling
Nearest frequency peer: Essling (+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 « espionnais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enthalpie
enthalpie
6,261 corpus weight
- entérologie
entérologie
6,259 corpus weight
- espionnais
espionnais
6,257 corpus weight
- Essling
Essling
6,256 corpus weight
- essorage
essorage
6,255 corpus weight
- estas
estas
6,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « espionnais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espionnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pjɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « espionnais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
espionnais is uncommon French at frequency #93,744 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.pjɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for espionnais in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is espionnais, spelled E-S-P-I-O-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espionner.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espionner.
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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