Which to use
“essaya” and “essayer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,804
- “essaya” frequency rank
- #963
- “essayer” frequency rank
- 28767
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essaya | essayer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de essayer. | Mettre à l’essai ; vérifier le bon fonctionnement. |
Where the eye mixes essaya and essayer
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. essaya runs 6 letters (VCCVVV) against essayer's 7 (VCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: essaya vs essayer
A purely visual mix-up. essaya (\e.sɛ.ja\) and essayer (\e.se.je\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28767, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
essaya is recorded at frequency rank #27,804, classified as averb, pronounced \e.sɛ.ja\. essayer is at rank #963, tagged as averb, pronounced \e.se.je\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 28767, this pair ranks #320,844 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of essaya vs essayer
Shared letters: aesy. Private to "essaya": -. Private to "essayer": r.
"essaya" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV · "essayer" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "essaya" and "essayer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "essaya" or "essayer"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "essaya" and "essayer" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "essaya" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "essayer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #320,844 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essaya" and "essayer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "España vs essaya". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #320,844 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.