essai
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,277
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
essai is aFrenchnoun. It means: Test, examen, épreuve de solidité, de pérennité, d’adéquation, de potabilité, de comestibilité, etc. Pronounced \e.sɛ\. It ranks #2,277 in French word frequency. Often confused with esta and étai.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for essai is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,277 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for essai, with forms such as "esai", "esasi", and "essia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "esta", "étai", "essor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is essai, spelled E-S-S-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Test, examen, épreuve de solidité, de pérennité, d’adéquation, de potabilité, de comestibilité, etc.
- 2Opération par laquelle on s’assure de la pureté d’un métal ou de la nature de celui qui est contenu dans une mine.
- 3Tentative.
- 4Premières productions de l’esprit ou de l’art qui se font sur quelque sujet, sur quelque matière, pour voir si l’on y réussira.
- 5Ouvrage littéraire explorant un domaine donné selon le point de vue de l’auteur. Il est intitulé ainsi, soit par modestie, soit parce que l’auteur ne se propose pas d’approfondir la matière de son traité.
- 6Points marqués (cinq points) par une équipe de rugby lorsqu’un de ses joueurs plaque le ballon au sol dans l’enbut adverse et permettant d'essayer une transformation (deux points supplémentaires).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esai,esasi,essia,sesai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essai
Misspelling Variants of "essai"
Frequency rank: #2,277 in French
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