essuient
\e.sɥi\
The verdict
“essuient” is uncommon French (frequency #71,499 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,499
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuient · essuient · French
essuient · rank #71,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,499
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Erbil
Nearest frequency peer: Erbil (-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 « essuient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envy
envy
28,505 corpus weight
- ept
ept
28,504 corpus weight
- Erbil
Erbil
28,503 corpus weight
- essuient
essuient
28,502 corpus weight
- essuya
essuya
28,501 corpus weight
- essuyez
essuyez
28,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essuient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essuient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɥi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essuient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essuient is uncommon French at frequency #71,499 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.sɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
essuient has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is essuient, spelled E-S-S-U-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essuyer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de essuyer.
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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