esturgeon
\ɛs.tyʁ.ʒɔ̃\
The verdict
“esturgeon” is uncommon French (frequency #60,764 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,764
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de poissons cartilagineux longilignes, au museau terminé par une longue pointe, et au corps ayant cinq rangées longitudinales de grosses plaques osseuses, anadromes (remontant les fleuves de...
Corpus desk
Index FR-esturgeon · esturgeon · French
esturgeon · rank #60,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,764
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escouades
Nearest frequency peer: escouades (-2 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 « esturgeon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- erratiques
erratiques
39,240 corpus weight
- escouades
escouades
39,239 corpus weight
- esturgeon
esturgeon
39,237 corpus weight
- Eugen
Eugen
39,234 corpus weight
- Ewen
Ewen
39,233 corpus weight
- exacerbe
exacerbe
39,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « esturgeon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esturgeon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.tyʁ.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « esturgeon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
esturgeon is uncommon French at frequency #60,764 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.tyʁ.ʒɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
esturgeon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is esturgeon, spelled E-S-T-U-R-G-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de poissons cartilagineux longilignes, au museau terminé par une longue pointe, et au corps ayant cinq rangées longitudinales de grosses plaques osseuses, anadromes (remontant les fleuves depuis la mer comme le saumon).
- 2Œufs d’esturgeon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how esturgeon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les esturgeons fournissent le caviar.
On pêche fréquemment dans le Rhône le barbeau et le goujon, quelquefois la truite ordinaire, la truite saumonée et même le saumon, le plus souvent la carpe, le brochet et les deux espèces d'anguilles de nos marais , que distinguent fort bien nos pêcheurs et mieux encore nos gourmets. A certaines époques, on y prend des esturgeons et des aloses en grande q…
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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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