essuyé
\e.sɥi.je\
The verdict
“essuyé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,580
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de essuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuye · essuyé · French
essuyé · rank #24,580 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,580
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entraînerait
Nearest frequency peer: entraînerait (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « essuyé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- empêcherait
empêcherait
75,426 corpus weight
- enfantine
enfantine
75,425 corpus weight
- enseignent
enseignent
75,424 corpus weight
- entraînerait
entraînerait
75,423 corpus weight
- essuyé
essuyé
75,421 corpus weight
- even
even
75,418 corpus weight
What this shows « essuyé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essuyé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essuyé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around essuyé (IPA \e.sɥi.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,580 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de essuyer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for essuyé, with forms such as "essuye", "essuyyé", and "essuéy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "essuyer", "essay", "essaie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is essuyé, spelled E-S-S-U-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de essuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essuyé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des personnes de sa société, se trouvant incapables d’apprécier ses motifs, toujours si nobles, expliquaient sa manière d’être avec ses cocélibataires comme la vengeance d’un refus essuyé ou prévu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- essuye
- essuyyé
- essuéy
- essyué
- esusyé
- esuyé
- sesuyé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essuyé - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "essuyé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).