estima
\ɛs.ti.ma\
The verdict
“estima” is uncommon French (frequency #57,932 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,932
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de estimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estima · estima · French
estima · rank #57,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,932
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Espelette
Nearest frequency peer: Espelette (-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 « estima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- escarpée
escarpée
42,072 corpus weight
- escorts
escorts
42,071 corpus weight
- Espelette
Espelette
42,070 corpus weight
- estima
estima
42,069 corpus weight
- estimais
estimais
42,068 corpus weight
- estivaux
estivaux
42,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « estima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.ti.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estima is uncommon French at frequency #57,932 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.ti.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de estimer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for estima in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 estima, spelled E-S-T-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de estimer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how estima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gamin a fait une OD, estima Pablo d’une voix sourde.
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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