essorer
French, verb/e.sɔ.ʁe/
essorer is spelled E-S-S-O-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Essorer is a French verb meaning “to dry out, to hang out to dry (e.g. washing), to spin-dry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exposer à l’air pour faire sécher ou sécher par l’effet de la force centrifuge dans un appareil fermé”.
What does essorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dry out, to hang out to dry (e.g. washing), to spin-dry
Je voudrais essorer mon pull-over.
- 2
wring, wring out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exposer à l’air pour faire sécher ou sécher par l’effet de la force centrifuge dans un appareil fermé. 2. Tordre un linge pour en exprimer l'eau. 3. Retourner la terre trop humide pour la faire sécher. 4. Prendre les forces, l'argent.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of essorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- essorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- essoré participle past
- essore first-person indicative present
- essores indicative present second-person
- essorons first-person indicative plural
- essorez indicative plural present
- essorent indicative plural present
- essorais first-person imperfect indicative
- essorait imperfect indicative singular
- essorions first-person imperfect indicative
- essoriez imperfect indicative plural
- essoraient imperfect indicative plural
- essorai first-person historic indicative
- essoras historic indicative past
- essora historic indicative past
- essorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce essorer?
- /e.sɔ.ʁe/
- \e.sɔ.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to essorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is essorer in French?
essorer appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).