esquire
\ɛs.kiʁ\
The verdict
“esquire” is uncommon French (frequency #65,924 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,924
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre donné à un avocat (attorney at law) aux États-Unis, et généralement ajouté à son nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esquire · esquire · French
esquire · rank #65,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,924
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envoyeur
Nearest frequency peer: envoyeur (-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 « esquire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enregistrons
enregistrons
34,080 corpus weight
- entour
entour
34,079 corpus weight
- envoyeur
envoyeur
34,078 corpus weight
- esquire
esquire
34,077 corpus weight
- estrada
estrada
34,076 corpus weight
- estuaires
estuaires
34,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esquire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esquire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esquire is uncommon French at frequency #65,924 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for esquire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is esquire, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Titre donné à un avocat (attorney at law) aux États-Unis, et généralement ajouté à son nom de famille.
- 2Titre de courtoisie anglais donné aux descendants par primogéniture de chevaliers (knight).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esquire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Vous êtes Phileas Fogg, esquire ? demanda-t-il. Oui, monsieur, répondit le gentleman. »
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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