essa
\ɛ.sa\
The verdict
“essa” is uncommon French (frequency #76,546 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,546
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe esser.
| 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) |
Where “essa” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
essa is uncommon French at frequency #76,546 among 201,161 “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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Using “essa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-S-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.