essaies

/\e.sɛ\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,258

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

essaies is aFrenchverb. It means: Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. Pronounced \e.sɛ\. Often confused with essaye and essais.

Key facts for essaies
PropertyValue
Headwordessaies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.sɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,258
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of essaies in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for essaies is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,258 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for essaies, with forms such as "esaies", "esasies", and "essaeis". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "essaye", "essais", "essuie", 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 essaies, spelled E-S-S-A-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de essayer.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de essayer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esaies,esasies,essaeis,essaiess,essaise,essiaes,sesaies

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essaies

Misspelling Variants of "essaies"

esaies6esasies7essaeis7essaiess8essaise7essiaes7sesaies7
Misspelling Variants of "essaies"

Frequency rank: #14,258 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "essaies"?
"essaies" is spelled E-S-S-A-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \e.sɛ\.
What does "essaies" mean?
As a verb, "essaies" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de essayer.
What words are commonly confused with "essaies"?
"essaies" is commonly confused with "essaye", "essais", "essuie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "essaies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "essaies" is \e.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "essaies" come from?
"essaies" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.