estime
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,952
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
estime is aFrenchnoun. It means: Opinion favorable que l’on a de quelqu’un, fondée sur la connaissance de son mérite, de ses bonnes qualités, de ses vertus. Pronounced \ɛs.tim\. It ranks #1,952 in French word frequency. Often confused with étire and Estrie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.tim\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for estime is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.tim\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,952 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for estime, with forms such as "esitme", "esstime", and "estiem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "étire", "Estrie", "estimer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is estime, spelled E-S-T-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Opinion favorable que l’on a de quelqu’un, fondée sur la connaissance de son mérite, de ses bonnes qualités, de ses vertus.
- 2Cas que l’on fait de certaines choses.
- 3Calcul approximatif que le pilote fait tous les jours de la distance parcourue par le navire, afin de juger à peu près du lieu où l’on est et du chemin qu’on a fait.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esitme,esstime,estiem,estimme,estmie,esttime,etsime,setime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estime
Misspelling Variants of "estime"
Frequency rank: #1,952 in French
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