essayistes
\e.sɛ.jist\
The verdict
“essayistes” is uncommon French (frequency #88,599 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,599
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de essayiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essayistes · essayistes · French
essayistes · rank #88,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,599
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esquivant
Nearest frequency peer: esquivant (-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 « essayistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- escaladent
escaladent
11,406 corpus weight
- esquivant
esquivant
11,403 corpus weight
- essayistes
essayistes
11,402 corpus weight
- essuyées
essuyées
11,401 corpus weight
- estampillées
estampillées
11,400 corpus weight
- eurométropo…
eurométropole
11,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essayistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essayistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɛ.jist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essayistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essayistes is uncommon French at frequency #88,599 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.sɛ.jist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de essayiste.".
No misspelling variants are generated for essayistes in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is essayistes, spelled E-S-S-A-Y-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de essayiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essayistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est point pour contrebalancer le penchant de notre société à s’ultra-mécaniser qu’elle doit « comprendre » des philosophes, des essayistes, des poètes.
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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