s’essayer à
\s‿e.sɛ.je.ʁ‿a\
The verdict
“s’essayer à” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se mettre à l’essai pour voir si l’on est capable d’une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-essayer-a · s’essayer à · French
s’essayer à · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’essayer à |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿e.sɛ.je.ʁ‿a\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’essayer à » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’essayer à is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿e.sɛ.je.ʁ‿a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for s’essayer à, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is s’essayer à, spelled S-’-E-S-S-A-Y-E-R- -À.
Definition
- 1Se mettre à l’essai pour voir si l’on est capable d’une chose.
- 2Tenter de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’essayer à appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’admirais qu’on fît surgir dans le monde quelque chose de réel et de neuf. Je ne pouvais m’y essayer qu’en un seul domaine : la littérature.
Nos lycéens séchaient les cours pour se retrouver dans des bouis-bouis où ils s'essayaient aux jurons employés par leurs parents, la langue brûlée par le café sucré.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.