essor
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de l’oiseau qui s’élance pour prendre son vol.
- 2Envol d’un aéronef.
- 3Élan vers le haut.
- 4Élan hâtif.
- 5Mouvement moral, comparé à l’essor de l’oiseau, par lequel un homme, un esprit, une âme se portent aux choses élevées, étendues.
- 6Succès qu’obtient un livre, une idée.
- 7Action de débuter en quelque chose avec énergie, avec hardiesse et liberté.
- 8Publication, sortie d'un livre.
- 9Développement qui a quelque chose de rapide comme le vol de l’oiseau.
- 10Ouverture 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.
- 11Libération 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"
Frequency rank: #7,316 in French
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