essais

\ɛ.sɛ\

/\ɛ.sɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“essais” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,877. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,877
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de essai.

Corpus desk

Index FR-essais · essais · French

essais · rank #2,877 · 6 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,877
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH Eric

Nearest frequency peer: Eric (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « essais »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « essais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

essais vs étais
50% similar
essais vs essay
67% similar
essais vs essaye
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for essais
PropertyValue
Headwordessais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ.sɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,877
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essais »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).essaisse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Eric » (#2,876), « Franc » (#2,878), « détruit » (#2,875). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « essais » est au #2,877. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around essais (IPA \ɛ.sɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,877 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de essai.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for essais, with forms such as "esais", "esasis", and "essaiss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "étais", "essay", "essaye", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is essais, spelled E-S-S-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de essai.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how essais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des essais cliniques ont eu pour but de radiosensibiliser des tumeurs pour lesquelles des arguments indirects laissaient envisager l’existence de cellules hypoxiques (tumeurs cérébrales, tumeurs du col utérin ou tumeurs ORL).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esais
  • esasis
  • essaiss
  • essasi
  • essias
  • sesais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

esais1esasis2essaiss1essasi2essias2sesais2
Edit distance from "essais"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "essais"?
"essais" is spelled E-S-S-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.sɛ\.
What does "essais" mean?
As a noun, "essais" means: Pluriel de essai.
What words are commonly confused with "essais"?
"essais" is commonly confused with "étais", "essay", "essaye". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "essais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "essais" is \ɛ.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "essais" come from?
"essais" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "essais", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Moscou#2,886active#2,861royale#2,896traite#2,857

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list