essayèrent
\e.sɛ.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“essayèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #66,725 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,725
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de essayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essayerent · essayèrent · French
essayèrent · rank #66,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,725
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estrella
Nearest frequency peer: estrella (+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 « essayèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- equal
equal
33,279 corpus weight
- escoffier
escoffier
33,278 corpus weight
- essayèrent
essayèrent
33,276 corpus weight
- estrella
estrella
33,275 corpus weight
- Eutrope
Eutrope
33,274 corpus weight
- exemptées
exemptées
33,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essayèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essayèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɛ.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essayèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essayèrent is uncommon French at frequency #66,725 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.sɛ.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de essayer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for essayèrent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is essayèrent, spelled E-S-S-A-Y-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de essayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essayèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les théologues sunnites essayèrent d’expliquer la raison d’être de l’institution califale, quels buts vise-t-elle à servir, quelles sont les qualifications qui devraient être requises pour pouvoir prétendre à cet office et qu’est-ce qui détermine les obligations des sujets.
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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