essayeur
\e.sɛ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“essayeur” is uncommon French (frequency #72,310 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,310
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui essaie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essayeur · essayeur · French
essayeur · rank #72,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,310
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espionnait
Nearest frequency peer: espionnait (-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 « essayeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envolez
envolez
27,696 corpus weight
- escarres
escarres
27,693 corpus weight
- espionnait
espionnait
27,692 corpus weight
- essayeur
essayeur
27,691 corpus weight
- exagérez
exagérez
27,687 corpus weight
- exercise
exercise
27,686 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essayeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essayeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɛ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essayeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essayeur is uncommon French at frequency #72,310 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.sɛ.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
essayeur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is essayeur, spelled E-S-S-A-Y-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui essaie.
- 2Celui qui fait essayer un vêtement.
- 3Employé qui, à la monnaie, fait l’essai des matières d’or et d’argent destinées à la fabrication et vérifie si elles sont au titre auquel elles doivent être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essayeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Duchotel.— Je te demande s’il y en a long, parce que je vais te dire, l’essayeur m’attend.
L’office (et charge) de l’essayeur fut contresigné par son titulaire Maître Jehan Morel, orfèvre et bourgeois de Montbéliard, après prestation du même serment le 15 janvier 1585 (style ancien).
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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