Estérel

name

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The verdict

“Estérel” is uncommon French (frequency #61,510 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,510
frequency rank, French
201,161
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Les Pays-d’en-Haut.

Key facts for Estérel
PropertyValue
HeadwordEstérel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#61,510
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Estérel” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Estérel lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Estérel is uncommon French at frequency #61,510 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Estérel, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 Estérel, spelled E-S-T-É-R-E-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Les Pays-d’en-Haut.
  2. 2
    Variante de Esterel.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Estérel"?
"Estérel" is spelled E-S-T-É-R-E-L.
What does "Estérel" mean?
As a proper noun, "Estérel" means: Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Les Pays-d’en-Haut.
What language does "Estérel" come from?
"Estérel" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “Estérel”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is E-S-T-É-R-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list