essor

/\e.sɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,316

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

essor is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de l’oiseau qui s’élance pour prendre son vol. Pronounced \e.sɔʁ\. It ranks #7,316 in French word frequency. Often confused with ester and essai.

Key facts for essor
PropertyValue
Headwordessor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.sɔʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,316
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of essor in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for essor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.sɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,316 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for essor, with forms such as "esor", "esosr", and "essorr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ester", "essai", "encor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is essor, spelled E-S-S-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de l’oiseau qui s’élance pour prendre son vol.
  2. 2
    Envol d’un aéronef.
  3. 3
    Élan vers le haut.
  4. 4
    Élan hâtif.
  5. 5
    Mouvement moral, comparé à l’essor de l’oiseau, par lequel un homme, un esprit, une âme se portent aux choses élevées, étendues.
  6. 6
    Succès qu’obtient un livre, une idée.
  7. 7
    Action de débuter en quelque chose avec énergie, avec hardiesse et liberté.
  8. 8
    Publication, sortie d'un livre.
  9. 9
    Développement qui a quelque chose de rapide comme le vol de l’oiseau.
  10. 10
    Ouverture dans le haut d’une cave enterrée ou d’une galerie avec un conduit vertical vers la surface pour assurer une ventilation par convection naturelle.
  11. 11
    Libération d’une contrainte.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esor,esosr,essorr,essro,sesor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essor

Misspelling Variants of "essor"

esor4esosr5essorr6essro5sesor5
Misspelling Variants of "essor"

Frequency rank: #7,316 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "essor"?
"essor" is spelled E-S-S-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is \e.sɔʁ\.
What does "essor" mean?
As a noun, "essor" means: Action de l’oiseau qui s’élance pour prendre son vol.
What words are commonly confused with "essor"?
"essor" is commonly confused with "ester", "essai", "encor". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "essor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "essor" is \e.sɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "essor" come from?
"essor" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.