Essling

name

The verdict

“Essling” is uncommon French (frequency #93,745 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,745
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne commune autrichienne, devenue un quartier de Vienne, surtout citée en référence à la bataille qui y a eu lieu en 1809.

Corpus desk

Index FR-essling · Essling · French

Essling · rank #93,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,745
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH espionnais

Nearest frequency peer: espionnais (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Essling »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Essling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Essling
PropertyValue
HeadwordEssling
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#93,745
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Essling » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Esslingtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « espionnais » (#93,744), « essorage » (#93,746), « entérologie » (#93,742). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « Essling » est au #93,745. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Essling is uncommon French at frequency #93,745 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne commune autrichienne, devenue un quartier de Vienne, surtout citée en référence à la bataille qui y a eu lieu en 1809.".

Essling has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Essling, spelled E-S-S-L-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne commune autrichienne, devenue un quartier de Vienne, surtout citée en référence à la bataille qui y a eu lieu en 1809.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Et alors le lion d’Essling se sauve pour aller essuyer une larme.

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 "Essling"?
"Essling" is spelled E-S-S-L-I-N-G.
What does "Essling" mean?
As a proper noun, "Essling" means: Ancienne commune autrichienne, devenue un quartier de Vienne, surtout citée en référence à la bataille qui y a eu lieu en 1809.
What language does "Essling" come from?
"Essling" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list