essentielle
\e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\
The verdict
“essentielle” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,191
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de essentiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essentielle · essentielle · French
essentielle · rank #6,191 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,191
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH fichiers
Nearest frequency peer: fichiers (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « essentielle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- débute
débute
93,813 corpus weight
- dédiée
dédiée
93,812 corpus weight
- essentielle
essentielle
93,810 corpus weight
- fichiers
fichiers
93,809 corpus weight
- figurent
figurent
93,808 corpus weight
- flic
flic
93,807 corpus weight
What this shows « essentielle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essentielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essentielle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around essentielle (IPA \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,191 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de essentiel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for essentielle, with forms such as "esentielle", "esesntielle", and "essenitelle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "essentiels", "essentielles", "essentiel", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is essentielle, spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de essentiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essentielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Naturellement, on pense de façon épidermique, que la nouvelle idéologie aura pour tâche essentielle de désintellectualiser et de désélitiser l’École, donc de supprimer ce coût-là, du moment que la masse des individus aura l’accès libre devant l’Enseignement secondaire et devant l’Enseignement supérieur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esentielle
- esesntielle
- essenitelle
- essenntielle
- essenteille
- essentiele
- essentielel
- essentilele
- essenttielle
- essetnielle
- essnetielle
- sesentielle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essentielle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).