essaimage
\ɛ.sɛ.maʒ\
The verdict
“essaimage” is uncommon French (frequency #70,616 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,616
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’essaimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essaimage · essaimage · French
essaimage · rank #70,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,616
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Estac
Nearest frequency peer: Estac (+1 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 « essaimage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- escarcelle
escarcelle
29,389 corpus weight
- eschatologie
eschatologie
29,388 corpus weight
- essaimage
essaimage
29,385 corpus weight
- Estac
Estac
29,384 corpus weight
- estimatif
estimatif
29,383 corpus weight
- Etterbeek
Etterbeek
29,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essaimage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essaimage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.sɛ.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essaimage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essaimage is uncommon French at frequency #70,616 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.sɛ.maʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for essaimage, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is essaimage, spelled E-S-S-A-I-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’essaimer.
- 2Époque de l’année où les abeilles essaiment.
- 3Pratique par laquelle une entreprise incite ses salariés à créer leur propre entreprise.
- 4Action d'essaimer, de se répandre, de se diffuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essaimage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La marche de la miellée exerce sur l’essaimage une influence considérable, et les apiculteurs disent communément qu'une année riche en miel est pauvre en essaims.
Au nord-est des États-Unis, dans l’État de New York, trois études dirigées par Michael Burgett, Richard Fell et Thomas Seeley ont montré que la saison de l’essaimage s’étendait de début mai à fin septembre, avec 84 % des essaims entre le 1ᵉʳ mai et le 15 juillet, et le pic vers le 10 juin.
This word in other languages
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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