essarter
\ɛ.saʁ.te\
The verdict
“essarter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défricher, en arrachant les arbres, les broussailles et les racines en vue d’une mise en culture ou d’un renouvellement complet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essarter · essarter · French
essarter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essarter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.saʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essarter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essarter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ.saʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Défricher, en arrachant les arbres, les broussailles et les racines en vue d’une mise en culture ou d’un renouvellement complet.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for essarter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is essarter, spelled E-S-S-A-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Défricher, en arrachant les arbres, les broussailles et les racines en vue d’une mise en culture ou d’un renouvellement complet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essarter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais quels obstacles à la surface du sol, et quel travail il aurait fallu pour l’essarter, pour le dégager des orties et des ronces, pour se garantir contre ces milliers d’échardes que le plus léger attouchement leur arrache !
À remarquer d’abord que, le jour où ils furent tués, ils n’étaient pas allé essarter, malgré le beau temps.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.