estuaires
\ɛs.tɥɛʁ\
The verdict
“estuaires” is uncommon French (frequency #65,926 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,926
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de estuaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estuaires · estuaires · French
estuaires · rank #65,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,926
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estrada
Nearest frequency peer: estrada (-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 « estuaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- envoyeur
envoyeur
34,078 corpus weight
- esquire
esquire
34,077 corpus weight
- estrada
estrada
34,076 corpus weight
- estuaires
estuaires
34,075 corpus weight
- exaspérer
exaspérer
34,073 corpus weight
- excuseras
excuseras
34,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « estuaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estuaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.tɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estuaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estuaires is uncommon French at frequency #65,926 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.tɥɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de estuaire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for estuaires in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 estuaires, spelled E-S-T-U-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de estuaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how estuaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une des principales caractéristiques des estuaires macrotidaux est l’abondance de particules fines qui sont issues du lessivage des sols et qui sont soit en suspension dans l’eau où elles forment le bouchon vaseux, soit déposées sur le fond constituant la crème de vase.
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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