essentialiste
\e.sɑ̃.sja.list\
The verdict
“essentialiste” is uncommon French (frequency #92,707 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,707
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’essentialisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essentialiste · essentialiste · French
essentialiste · rank #92,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,707
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essuyée
Nearest frequency peer: essuyée (+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 « essentialiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- escande
escande
7,297 corpus weight
- esculape
esculape
7,296 corpus weight
- essentialis…
essentialiste
7,294 corpus weight
- essuyée
essuyée
7,293 corpus weight
- estampage
estampage
7,292 corpus weight
- estive
estive
7,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essentialiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essentialiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃.sja.list\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #92,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essentialiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essentialiste is uncommon French at frequency #92,707 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.sɑ̃.sja.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à l’essentialisme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for essentialiste, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is essentialiste, spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’essentialisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essentialiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’accueil des réfugiés, pourtant au coeur de la tradition biblique la plus ancienne, rencontre une forte résistance au nom d’une conception essentialiste de l’identité socioculturelle.
Le féminisme essentialiste affirme une essence féminine. Il met au centre de son analyse l'expérience féminine plutôt que la construction sociale des genres. Il réclame l'égalité dans la différence.
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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