essa
\ɛ.sa\
The verdict
“essa” is uncommon French (frequency #76,546 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,546
- 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 du verbe esser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essa · essa · French
essa · rank #76,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,546
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ethnologiques
Nearest frequency peer: ethnologiques (+2 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 « essa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enroulant
enroulant
23,461 corpus weight
- enroulées
enroulées
23,460 corpus weight
- enseignaient
enseignaient
23,459 corpus weight
- essa
essa
23,455 corpus weight
- ethnologiqu…
ethnologiques
23,453 corpus weight
- exacerbées
exacerbées
23,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.sa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essa is uncommon French at frequency #76,546 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe esser.".
essa has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 essa, spelled E-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe esser.
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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