essuya
\e.sɥi.ja\
The verdict
“essuya” is uncommon French (frequency #71,500 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,500
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de essuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuya · essuya · French
essuya · rank #71,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,500
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essuient
Nearest frequency peer: essuient (-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 « essuya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- estoc
estoc
28,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essuya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essuya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɥi.ja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essuya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essuya is uncommon French at frequency #71,500 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.sɥi.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de essuyer.".
essuya has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 essuya, spelled E-S-S-U-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de essuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essuya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Baltimore, trois-mâts-barque venant de la Havane, essuya de très-forts coups de vent de l’Ouest.
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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