esso
\ˈes.so\
The verdict
“esso” is uncommon French (frequency #53,333 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,333
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - il
Corpus desk
Index FR-esso · esso · French
esso · rank #53,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,333
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Essaouira
Nearest frequency peer: Essaouira (-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 « esso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ermites
ermites
46,671 corpus weight
- Eschyle
Eschyle
46,670 corpus weight
- Essaouira
Essaouira
46,669 corpus weight
- esso
esso
46,668 corpus weight
- eurosceptiq…
eurosceptique
46,665 corpus weight
- excédentair…
excédentaires
46,663 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ˈes.so\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esso is uncommon French at frequency #53,333 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \ˈes.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for esso, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is esso, spelled E-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1il
- 2elle
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).