esquirol
\ɛs.ki.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“esquirol” is uncommon French (frequency #78,397 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,397
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écureuil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esquirol · esquirol · French
esquirol · rank #78,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,397
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escamotable
Nearest frequency peer: escamotable (-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 « esquirol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entrepreneu…
entrepreneuriales
21,608 corpus weight
- escamotable
escamotable
21,605 corpus weight
- esquirol
esquirol
21,604 corpus weight
- estampille
estampille
21,603 corpus weight
- estimera
estimera
21,602 corpus weight
- estoniens
estoniens
21,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esquirol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquirol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ki.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esquirol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esquirol is uncommon French at frequency #78,397 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.ki.ʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écureuil.".
esquirol has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is esquirol, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-R-O-L.
Definition
- 1Écureuil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how esquirol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"La couleuvre émerge de la touffe d’aspic, l’esquirol, à l’abri de sa queue en panache, court, un gland dans la main."
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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