essuyer
\ɛ.sɥi.je\
The verdict
“essuyer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,130. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,130
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sécher en frottant, par exemple avec un objet absorbant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuyer · essuyer · French
essuyer · rank #17,130 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,130
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essuie
Nearest frequency peer: essuie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « essuyer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- escadron
escadron
82,874 corpus weight
- essayais
essayais
82,873 corpus weight
- essuie
essuie
82,872 corpus weight
- essuyer
essuyer
82,871 corpus weight
- Ethan
Ethan
82,870 corpus weight
- evil
evil
82,869 corpus weight
What this shows « essuyer » 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 | essuyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.sɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « essuyer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around essuyer (IPA \ɛ.sɥi.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,130 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for essuyer, with forms such as "essueyr", "essuyerr", and "essuyre". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "essaye", "essuie", "écuyer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 essuyer, spelled E-S-S-U-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sécher en frottant, par exemple avec un objet absorbant.
- 2Sécher en parlant du vent, du soleil, etc.
- 3Enlever la poussière ou la saleté en frottant.
- 4Devoir supporter, éprouver, subir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how essuyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle s’est éclipsée ; elle est revenue, tiède et savonneuse ; puis, toute fraîche, la figure rosissante, essuyant des gouttelettes d’eau.
Des larmes lui coulaient bien tranquillement sur les joues, sans qu’il pensât à les essuyer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- essueyr
- essuyerr
- essuyre
- essuyyer
- essyuer
- esusyer
- esuyer
- sesuyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of essuyer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "essuyer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).