essence
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,575
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
essence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui fait qu’une chose est ce qu’elle est, ce qui constitue la nature d’une chose. Pronounced \e.sɑ̃s\. It ranks #2,575 in French word frequency. Often confused with Essonne and essences.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for essence is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,575 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for essence, with forms such as "esence", "esesnce", and "essecne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Essonne", "essences", "Essec", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 essence, spelled E-S-S-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui fait qu’une chose est ce qu’elle est, ce qui constitue la nature d’une chose.
- 2Espèce apte à produire du bois.
- 3Espèce dominante d’une forêt.
- 4Huile aromatique très subtile qu’on extrait de certaines substances.
- 5Extrait concentré et épuré de certaines substances.
- 6Essence de térébenthine.
- 7Carburant pour moteur à explosion, issu du pétrole raffiné, et généralement opposé au gazole.
- 8Tout carburant.
- 9Voiture propulsée par un moteur à essence.
- 10Par opposition à accident, ce qui constitue la nature permanente d’un être, indépendamment de ce qui lui arrive.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esence,esesnce,essecne,essencce,essenec,essennce,essnece,sesence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essence
Misspelling Variants of "essence"
Frequency rank: #2,575 in French
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