esquimaux
\ɛs.ki.mo\
The verdict
“esquimaux” is uncommon French (frequency #50,205 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,205
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de esquimau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esquimaux · esquimaux · French
esquimaux · rank #50,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,205
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eren
Nearest frequency peer: eren (-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 « esquimaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envahissant…
envahissantes
49,800 corpus weight
- enverrons
enverrons
49,799 corpus weight
- eren
eren
49,797 corpus weight
- esquimaux
esquimaux
49,796 corpus weight
- estre
estre
49,795 corpus weight
- exalte
exalte
49,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esquimaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquimaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛs.ki.mo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esquimaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esquimaux is uncommon French at frequency #50,205 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛs.ki.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de esquimau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for esquimaux, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is esquimaux, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-M-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de esquimau.
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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