Which to use
“essayent” and “essayez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,376
- “essayent” frequency rank
- #3,913
- “essayez” frequency rank
- 17289
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essayent | essayez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. |
Where the eye mixes essayent and essayez
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. essayent runs 8 letters (VCCVVVCC) against essayez's 7 (VCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses essayent with essayez
A purely visual mix-up. essayent (\e.sɛj\) and essayez (\e.sɛ.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 17289, 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\. essayez is at rank #3,913, tagged as averb, pronounced \e.sɛ.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 17289, this pair ranks #383,887 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of essayent vs essayez
Shared letters: aesy. Private to "essayent": nt. Private to "essayez": z.
"essayent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVCC · "essayez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "essayent" and "essayez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "essayent" or "essayez" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "essayent" and "essayez" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "essayent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "essayez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #383,887 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essayent" and "essayez" 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 #383,887 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.