allumeuse
\a.ly.møz\
The verdict
“allumeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #60,525 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,525
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui était (autrefois) chargée d’allumer quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allumeuse · allumeuse · French
allumeuse · rank #60,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,525
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allumait
Nearest frequency peer: allumait (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « allumeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agrippine
agrippine
39,479 corpus weight
- alcalins
alcalins
39,478 corpus weight
- allumait
allumait
39,477 corpus weight
- allumeuse
allumeuse
39,476 corpus weight
- alphabets
alphabets
39,474 corpus weight
- alpina
alpina
39,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allumeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allumeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.møz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allumeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allumeuse is uncommon French at frequency #60,525 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ly.møz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for allumeuse, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is allumeuse, spelled A-L-L-U-M-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui était (autrefois) chargée d’allumer quelque chose.
- 2Femme qui cherche à exciter le désir.
- 3Prostituée qui racole, dans la rue, dans un bal, marcheuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allumeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais comme la rue était à peu près déserte, l’allumeuse de réverbère avait entendu notre contestation, et se tournant vers moi, elle me dit d'une voix cassée : […].
Il faisait extrêmement chaud mais comme Mack était une allumeuse de feu, un don très convoité et très puissant pour les démons, elle les tua un à un sans le moindre problème.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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