estimais
\ɛs.ti.mɛ\
The verdict
“estimais” is uncommon French (frequency #57,933 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,933
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de estimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estimais · estimais · French
estimais · rank #57,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,933
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estima
Nearest frequency peer: estima (-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 « estimais »
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 « estimais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estimais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.ti.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estimais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estimais is uncommon French at frequency #57,933 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.ti.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
estimais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is estimais, spelled E-S-T-I-M-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de estimer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de estimer.
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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