essouffle
\ɛ.sufl\
The verdict
“essouffle” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,592
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe essouffler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essouffle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.sufl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “essouffle” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around essouffle (IPA \ɛ.sufl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,592 among 201,161 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for essouffle, with forms such as "esosuffle", "esouffle", and "essofufle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is essouffle, spelled E-S-S-O-U-F-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe essouffler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe essouffler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe essouffler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe essouffler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe essouffler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esosuffle
- esouffle
- essofufle
- essouffel
- essoufflle
- essoufle
- essouflfe
- essuoffle
- sesouffle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essouffle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “essouffle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-S-S-O-U-F-F-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ.sufl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.