essaim
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,248
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
essaim is aFrenchnoun. It means: Groupe d’abeilles domestiques lorsqu’il a quitté la ruche, dispersé en vol ou agglutiné en boule, dont le but est de fonder une nouvelle colonie. Pronounced \e.sɛ̃\. Often confused with essay and essaye.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essaim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for essaim is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.sɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,248 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for essaim, with forms such as "esaim", "esasim", and "essaimm". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "essay", "essaye", "essais", 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 essaim, spelled E-S-S-A-I-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Groupe d’abeilles domestiques lorsqu’il a quitté la ruche, dispersé en vol ou agglutiné en boule, dont le but est de fonder une nouvelle colonie.
- 2Jeune colonie d’abeilles domestiques.
- 3Ensemble d'individus sexués d'une espèce d'insectes sociaux (principalement les fourmis et les termites) regroupés lors d'un vol nuptial dans le but de s'accoupler et de fonder de nouvelles colonies. Une autre forme de reproduction collective existe par bouturage.
- 4Ensemble des individus qui vivent et travaillent de concert en constituant une colonie d’insectes sociaux comme les abeilles et les guêpes sociales ou les termites.
- 5Grande multitude d’insectes quelconques et d’autres animaux.
- 6Ensemble nombreux de personnes qui se déplacent ou s’agitent.
- 7Grande multitude abstraite ou concrète.
- 8Ensemble d'astéroïdes se déplaçant dans l'espace ou pluie de météores lorsqu'ils tombent dans l'atmosphère terrestre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esaim,esasim,essaimm,essami,essiam,sesaim
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essaim
Misspelling Variants of "essaim"
Frequency rank: #33,248 in French
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