amenuiser
\a.mə.nɥi.ze\
The verdict
“amenuiser” is uncommon French (frequency #92,404 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre plus menu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amenuiser · amenuiser · French
amenuiser · rank #92,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,404
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alvéolaires
Nearest frequency peer: alvéolaires (-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 « amenuiser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altri
altri
7,599 corpus weight
- alvéolaires
alvéolaires
7,598 corpus weight
- amenuiser
amenuiser
7,597 corpus weight
- amiables
amiables
7,596 corpus weight
- amnésiques
amnésiques
7,594 corpus weight
- Anabelle
Anabelle
7,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amenuiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amenuiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.mə.nɥi.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amenuiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amenuiser is uncommon French at frequency #92,404 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.mə.nɥi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amenuiser, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is amenuiser, spelled A-M-E-N-U-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre plus menu.
- 2Devenir plus menu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amenuiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amenuiser un bâton, une cheville, une planche.
Comparée à la lumière extérieure, la lumière diffuse de lʼabbatiale semble amenuiser le relief de lʼobjet qui apparaît, par contraste, « franchement souligné » par une lumière plus directe.
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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