essentiel
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,073
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
essentiel is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui appartient à l’essence, qui est de l’essence. Pronounced \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\. It ranks #2,073 in French word frequency. Often confused with essentiels and essentielle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essentiel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for essentiel is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,073 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for essentiel, with forms such as "esentiel", "esesntiel", and "essenitel". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "essentiels", "essentielle", "essentielles", 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 essentiel, spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’essence, qui est de l’essence.
- 2Qui est la partie la plus importante d’une chose, qui en est un élément nécessaire, indispensable.
- 3Indispensable ; de la plus haute importance.
- 4Qualifie les caractères les plus saillants qui distinguent les espèces, les genres.
- 5Qualifie une maladie qui ne dépend d’aucune autre.
- 6Qualifie les sels qu’on extrait des végétaux ou les huiles volatiles et aromatiques qu’on obtient des plantes par la distillation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esentiel,esesntiel,essenitel,essenntiel,essenteil,essentiell,essentile,essenttiel,essetniel,essnetiel,sesentiel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essentiel
Misspelling Variants of "essentiel"
Frequency rank: #2,073 in French
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