essentiels
\e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\
The verdict
“essentiels” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,560
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de essentiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essentiels · essentiels · French
essentiels · rank #7,560 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,560
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entrevue
Nearest frequency peer: entrevue (-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 « essentiels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détenu
détenu
92,445 corpus weight
- Ei
Ei
92,444 corpus weight
- enlèvement
enlèvement
92,443 corpus weight
- entrevue
entrevue
92,442 corpus weight
- essentiels
essentiels
92,441 corpus weight
- estimer
estimer
92,440 corpus weight
What this shows « essentiels » 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 | essentiels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essentiels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around essentiels (IPA \e.sɑ̃.sjɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,560 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de essentiel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for essentiels, with forms such as "esentiels", "esesntiels", and "essenitels". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "essentiel", "essentielle", "essentielles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is essentiels, spelled E-S-S-E-N-T-I-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de essentiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essentiels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fait que dans cet emploi, ainsi ne se fasse guère précéder d’un autre adverbe (voir section 2.3.1.) suggère qu’il s’est aussi décatégorialisé (Lehmann 2002). Qu’un élément se décatégorialise revient à dire qu’il perd les traits syntaxiques essentiels de sa catégorie lexicale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esentiels
- esesntiels
- essenitels
- essenntiels
- essenteils
- essentiells
- essentielss
- essentiesl
- essentiles
- essenttiels
- essetniels
- essnetiels
- sesentiels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essentiels - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).