Which to use
“essayent” and “essayes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,376
- “essayent” frequency rank
- #13,377
- “essayes” frequency rank
- 26753
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essayent | essayes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. |
Same sound, different letters: essayent vs essayes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. essayent runs 8 letters (VCCVVVCC) against essayes's 7 (VCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: essayent vs essayes
This is the hard kind. essayent and essayes are pronounced identically (\e.sɛj\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26753, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
essayent is recorded at frequency rank #13,376, classified as averb, pronounced \e.sɛj\. essayes is at rank #13,377, tagged as averb, pronounced \e.sɛj\.
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 26753, this pair ranks #333,046 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of essayent vs essayes
Shared letters: aesy. Private to "essayent": nt. Private to "essayes": -.
"essayent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVCC · "essayes" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "essayent" and "essayes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "essayent" or "essayes"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "essayent" / "essayes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "essayent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "essayes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #333,046 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essayent" and "essayes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "essayent vs essuyant". 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 #333,046 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.