essentielle

\e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\

/\e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « essentielle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

essentielle vs essentiels
82% similar
essentielle vs essentielles
92% similar
essentielle vs essentiel
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for essentielle
PropertyValue
Headwordessentielle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\
Letters11
Frequency rank#6,191
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essentielle »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.essentiellese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fichiers » (#6,192), « dédiée » (#6,189), « figurent » (#6,193). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « essentielle » est au #6,191. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de essentiel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how essentielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

esentielle1esesntielle2essenitelle2essenntielle1essenteille2essentiele1essentielel2essentilele2
Edit distance from "essentielle"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "essentielle"?
"essentielle" is spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\.
What does "essentielle" mean?
As an adjective, "essentielle" means: Féminin singulier de essentiel.
What words are commonly confused with "essentielle"?
"essentielle" is commonly confused with "essentiels", "essentielles", "essentiel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "essentielle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "essentielle" is \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "essentielle" come from?
"essentielle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "essentielle", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list