essuies
\e.sɥi\
The verdict
“essuies” is uncommon French (frequency #73,977 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,977
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de essuie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuies · essuies · French
essuies · rank #73,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,977
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essayées
Nearest frequency peer: essayées (-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 « essuies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- esquissée
esquissée
26,026 corpus weight
- essayées
essayées
26,025 corpus weight
- essuies
essuies
26,024 corpus weight
- eurasienne
eurasienne
26,023 corpus weight
- européiste
européiste
26,022 corpus weight
- excites
excites
26,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essuies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essuies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.sɥi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essuies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essuies is uncommon French at frequency #73,977 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.sɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de essuie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for essuies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is essuies, spelled E-S-S-U-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de essuie.
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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