comedienne
/kəˌmiːdɪˈɛn/
"comedienne" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comedienne” is uncommon English (frequency #73,082 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,082
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female comedian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-comedienne · comedienne · English
comedienne · rank #73,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,082
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colostrum
Nearest frequency peer: colostrum (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “comedienne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- codices
codices
26,923 corpus weight
- cofactor
cofactor
26,922 corpus weight
- Collings
Collings
26,921 corpus weight
- colostrum
colostrum
26,920 corpus weight
- comedienne
comedienne
26,919 corpus weight
- conquistador
conquistador
26,916 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “comedienne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comedienne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˌmiːdɪˈɛn/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “comedienne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
comedienne is uncommon English at frequency #73,082 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəˌmiːdɪˈɛn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female comedian.".
comedienne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French comédienne, equivalent to comedy + -ienne. Compare doyenne. The correct English form is comedienne, spelled C-O-M-E-D-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1A female comedian.
Etymology
Borrowed from French comédienne, equivalent to comedy + -ienne. Compare doyenne.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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