essaimer
\e.se.me\
The verdict
“essaimer” is uncommon French (frequency #85,705 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,705
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sortir en essaim, en parlant des abeilles qui abandonnent la ruche pour s’établir ailleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essaimer · essaimer · French
essaimer · rank #85,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,705
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estafette
Nearest frequency peer: estafette (+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 « essaimer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entamons
entamons
14,300 corpus weight
- entretienne
entretienne
14,299 corpus weight
- essaimer
essaimer
14,296 corpus weight
- estafette
estafette
14,295 corpus weight
- estimateur
estimateur
14,294 corpus weight
- excusa
excusa
14,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essaimer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essaimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.se.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essaimer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essaimer is uncommon French at frequency #85,705 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.se.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
essaimer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is essaimer, spelled E-S-S-A-I-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sortir en essaim, en parlant des abeilles qui abandonnent la ruche pour s’établir ailleurs.
- 2Faire sortir en essaim en parlant d’une ruche trop peuplée qui est abandonnée par les abeilles.
- 3Migrer en groupe en parlant d’autres animaux, voire des humains.
- 4Fonder de nouveaux établissements sortis de la maison-mère, en parlant d’une société, d’une œuvre.
- 5transitif Répandre, diffuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essaimer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces abeilles ont essaimé.
Cette ruche a essaimé.
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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