essayaient
\e.sɛ.jɛ\
The verdict
“essayaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,995. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,995
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de essayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essayaient · essayaient · French
essayaient · rank #25,995 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,995
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esa
Nearest frequency peer: esa (-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 « essayaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enchère
enchère
74,011 corpus weight
- enlevez
enlevez
74,010 corpus weight
- esa
esa
74,007 corpus weight
- essayaient
essayaient
74,006 corpus weight
- Everest
Everest
74,003 corpus weight
- existera
existera
74,002 corpus weight
What this shows « essayaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essayaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɛ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essayaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around essayaient (IPA \e.sɛ.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,995 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de essayer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for essayaient, with forms such as "esasyaient", "esayaient", and "essaayient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "essayant", "essayait", "essayent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 essayaient, spelled E-S-S-A-Y-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de essayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essayaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la lumière de l’éclair suivant, elle entr’aperçut les chevaux qui se cabraient et essayaient de se défaire de leurs entraves.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esasyaient
- esayaient
- essaayient
- essayaeint
- essayaiennt
- essayaientt
- essayaietn
- essayainet
- essayiaent
- essayyaient
- essyaaient
- sesayaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essayaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).