esse
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,938
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
esse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lettre latine S, s. Pronounced \ɛs\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for esse is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,938 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for esse in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is esse, spelled E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lettre latine S, s.
- 2Instrument en forme de S.
- 3Conduite en forme de S, permettant d’assurer la mise hors-gel.
- 4Cheville de fer tordue, faite à peu près en forme d’S, qu’on met au bout de l’essieu d’une voiture, pour empêcher que la roue n’en sorte.
- 5Crochet auquel sont suspendus les plateaux au fléau d’une balance.
- 6Crochet aux extrémités effilées servant à suspendre des quartiers de viande.
- 7Crochet qui sert à élever les pierres pour la construction d’un édifice.
- 8Chacune des ouïes de la table d’harmonie des instruments de la famille du violon.
- 9Lame de métal percée de trous de différents diamètres, destinée à tester le calibre des fils de fer. → voir esser
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,938 in French
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