essoufflée
\e.su.fle\
The verdict
“essoufflée” is uncommon French (frequency #53,939 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,939
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de essoufflé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essoufflee · essoufflée · French
essoufflée · rank #53,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,939
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esse
Nearest frequency peer: esse (-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 « essoufflée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Erevan
Erevan
46,068 corpus weight
- errances
errances
46,066 corpus weight
- espadon
espadon
46,064 corpus weight
- esse
esse
46,063 corpus weight
- essoufflée
essoufflée
46,062 corpus weight
- eusse
eusse
46,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essoufflée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essoufflée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.su.fle\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essoufflée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essoufflée is uncommon French at frequency #53,939 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.su.fle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de essoufflé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for essoufflée in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is essoufflée, spelled E-S-S-O-U-F-F-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de essoufflé.
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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