essouffler
\e.su.fle\
The verdict
“essouffler” is uncommon French (frequency #62,259 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,259
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre presque hors d’haleine par un mouvement violent ou des conditions environnementales difficiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essouffler · essouffler · French
essouffler · rank #62,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,259
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essaieront
Nearest frequency peer: essaieront (-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 « essouffler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ers
ers
37,745 corpus weight
- escadres
escadres
37,744 corpus weight
- essaieront
essaieront
37,743 corpus weight
- essouffler
essouffler
37,742 corpus weight
- evergreen
evergreen
37,740 corpus weight
- exaltée
exaltée
37,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essouffler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essouffler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.su.fle\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essouffler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essouffler is uncommon French at frequency #62,259 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.su.fle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre presque hors d’haleine par un mouvement violent ou des conditions environnementales difficiles.".
essouffler has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is essouffler, spelled E-S-S-O-U-F-F-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre presque hors d’haleine par un mouvement violent ou des conditions environnementales difficiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essouffler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous montez trop vite, cela vous essoufflera.
Si vous ne retenez pas votre cheval, vous l’essoufflerez.
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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