Esther
\ɛs.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“Esther” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,467
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esther · Esther · French
Esther · rank #14,467 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,467
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entendais
Nearest frequency peer: entendais (-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 « Esther »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- efforce
efforce
85,537 corpus weight
- entendais
entendais
85,535 corpus weight
- Esther
Esther
85,534 corpus weight
- Evans
Evans
85,533 corpus weight
- exclue
exclue
85,532 corpus weight
- existante
existante
85,531 corpus weight
What this shows « Esther » 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 | Esther |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Esther »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Esther (IPA \ɛs.tɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,467 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Esther, with forms such as "eshter", "essther", and "estehr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "éther", "Ethel", "estimer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Esther, spelled E-S-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Esther appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah ! çà, que voulez-vous donc, vous autres, pour femmes ?… des voliges !… cria la pauvre Esther.
Seule la vieille Esther avait déjà tout deviné. Elle en avait tant vu de ces gamines engrossées par le baas. Mais celle-ci avait quelque chose de spécial, et qui la rendait bougrement dangereuse, presque vénéneuse : la gamine avait envoûté le baas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eshter
- essther
- estehr
- estherr
- esthher
- esthre
- estther
- etsher
- sether
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Esther - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).