essuyées
\e.sɥi.je\
The verdict
“essuyées” is uncommon French (frequency #88,600 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,600
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de essuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuyees · essuyées · French
essuyées · rank #88,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,600
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essayistes
Nearest frequency peer: essayistes (-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 « essuyées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- esquivant
esquivant
11,403 corpus weight
- essayistes
essayistes
11,402 corpus weight
- essuyées
essuyées
11,401 corpus weight
- estampillées
estampillées
11,400 corpus weight
- eurométropo…
eurométropole
11,398 corpus weight
- Eustace
Eustace
11,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essuyées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essuyées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essuyées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essuyées is uncommon French at frequency #88,600 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.sɥi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de essuyer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for essuyées in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is essuyées, spelled E-S-S-U-Y-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel de essuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essuyées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais à peine jeté les yeux sur ces beaux steppes sauvages où tu bondis, et je ne te parlerai point de quelques larmes essuyées en te lisant ; mais le regret n’est pas le remords, quoiqu’il en soit un peu germain.
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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