essorer
\e.sɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“essorer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,849 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,849
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exposer à l’air pour faire sécher ou sécher par l’effet de la force centrifuge dans un appareil fermé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essorer · essorer · French
essorer · rank #83,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,849
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espièglerie
Nearest frequency peer: espièglerie (-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 « essorer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envolaient
envolaient
16,156 corpus weight
- espièglerie
espièglerie
16,153 corpus weight
- essorer
essorer
16,152 corpus weight
- estacade
estacade
16,151 corpus weight
- estompée
estompée
16,149 corpus weight
- Estée
Estée
16,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essorer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essorer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essorer is uncommon French at frequency #83,849 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.sɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for essorer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is essorer, spelled E-S-S-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exposer à l’air pour faire sécher ou sécher par l’effet de la force centrifuge dans un appareil fermé.
- 2Tordre un linge pour en exprimer l'eau.
- 3Retourner la terre trop humide pour en faire sécher.
- 4Prendre les forces, l'argent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fallait bien cependant poser la planche à repasser sur son bureau et sur une autre table, faire essorer le linge sur des traverses dans l’entrée.
…on la fait tremper pendant trois ou quatre heures, après quoi on la retire du bain, on laisse égoutter et on essore.
This word in other languages
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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