essentielles
\e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\
The verdict
“essentielles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,389
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de essentiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essentielles · essentielles · French
essentielles · rank #8,389 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,389
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envoient
Nearest frequency peer: envoient (-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 « essentielles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- emprisonnem…
emprisonnement
91,615 corpus weight
- enculé
enculé
91,614 corpus weight
- envoient
envoient
91,613 corpus weight
- essentielles
essentielles
91,612 corpus weight
- expliquant
expliquant
91,611 corpus weight
- familier
familier
91,610 corpus weight
What this shows « essentielles » 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 | essentielles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essentielles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around essentielles (IPA \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,389 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de essentiel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for essentielles, with forms such as "esentielles", "esesntielles", and "essenitelles". 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", "essentielle", "essentiel", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is essentielles, spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de essentiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essentielles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les purifications, qui forment une des pratiques les plus essentielles du culte musulman, sont recommandées par le Coran et minutieusement réglées par les théologiens.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esentielles
- esesntielles
- essenitelles
- essenntielles
- essenteilles
- essentielels
- essentieles
- essentielless
- essentiellse
- essentileles
- essenttielles
- essetnielles
- essnetielles
- sesentielles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essentielles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).