estes
\ɛst\
The verdict
“estes” is uncommon French (frequency #58,598 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,598
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de este.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estes · estes · French
estes · rank #58,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,598
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esthète
Nearest frequency peer: esthète (+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 « estes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- espionnent
espionnent
41,406 corpus weight
- essaims
essaims
41,405 corpus weight
- estes
estes
41,403 corpus weight
- esthète
esthète
41,402 corpus weight
- ETAM
ETAM
41,401 corpus weight
- ETG
ETG
41,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « estes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estes is uncommon French at frequency #58,598 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de este.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for estes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is estes, spelled E-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de este.
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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