essuyez
\e.sɥi.je\
The verdict
“essuyez” is uncommon French (frequency #71,501 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,501
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-essuyez · essuyez · French
essuyez · rank #71,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essuya
Nearest frequency peer: essuya (-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 « essuyez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- eurasiatique
eurasiatique
28,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « essuyez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essuyez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.sɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « essuyez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
essuyez is uncommon French at frequency #71,501 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.sɥi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
essuyez has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is essuyez, spelled E-S-S-U-Y-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essuyer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de essuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how essuyez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Joseph, lui dit-il au moment où il eut achevé sa coiffure, ôtez cette serviette, tirez ces rideaux, mettez ces fauteuils en place, secouez le tapis de la cheminée, et remettez-le bien droit, essuyez partout.
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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