esquissant
\ɛs.ki.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“esquissant” is uncommon French (frequency #73,141 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,141
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de esquisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esquissant · esquissant · French
esquissant · rank #73,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,141
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espa
Nearest frequency peer: espa (-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 « esquissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ESB
ESB
26,863 corpus weight
- espa
espa
26,861 corpus weight
- esquissant
esquissant
26,860 corpus weight
- Esséniens
Esséniens
26,859 corpus weight
- estampillée
estampillée
26,858 corpus weight
- ethos
ethos
26,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esquissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.ki.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esquissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esquissant is uncommon French at frequency #73,141 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.ki.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de esquisser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for esquissant 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is esquissant, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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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