esquissa
\ɛs.ki.sa\
The verdict
“esquissa” is uncommon French (frequency #89,690 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,690
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de esquisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esquissa · esquissa · French
esquissa · rank #89,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Escalante
Nearest frequency peer: Escalante (-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 « esquissa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envieuse
envieuse
10,316 corpus weight
- esca
esca
10,313 corpus weight
- Escalante
Escalante
10,312 corpus weight
- esquissa
esquissa
10,311 corpus weight
- esquissés
esquissés
10,310 corpus weight
- evangelista
evangelista
10,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esquissa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquissa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.ki.sa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esquissa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esquissa is uncommon French at frequency #89,690 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.ki.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de esquisser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for esquissa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is esquissa, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de esquisser.
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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