esquives
\ɛs.kiv\
The verdict
“esquives” is uncommon French (frequency #69,059 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,059
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de esquive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esquives · esquives · French
esquives · rank #69,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,059
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esquimau
Nearest frequency peer: esquimau (-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 « esquives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- escampette
escampette
30,945 corpus weight
- eschatologi…
eschatologique
30,944 corpus weight
- esquimau
esquimau
30,943 corpus weight
- esquives
esquives
30,942 corpus weight
- essaierait
essaierait
30,941 corpus weight
- essayages
essayages
30,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esquives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.kiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esquives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esquives is uncommon French at frequency #69,059 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.kiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de esquive.".
esquives doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is esquives, spelled E-S-Q-U-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de esquive.
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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