argileuse
\aʁ.ʒi.løz\
The verdict
“argileuse” is uncommon French (frequency #66,497 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,497
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de argileux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argileuse · argileuse · French
argileuse · rank #66,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,497
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH archiver
Nearest frequency peer: archiver (-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 « argileuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- approchées
approchées
33,507 corpus weight
- appropriant
appropriant
33,506 corpus weight
- archiver
archiver
33,505 corpus weight
- argileuse
argileuse
33,504 corpus weight
- argumentant
argumentant
33,503 corpus weight
- arment
arment
33,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « argileuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argileuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒi.løz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « argileuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
argileuse is uncommon French at frequency #66,497 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.ʒi.løz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de argileux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for argileuse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is argileuse, spelled A-R-G-I-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de argileux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how argileuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On distingue ainsi, selon la composition : une texture sableuse, sablo-limoneuse ou limono-sableuse, limoneuse, limono-argileuse ou argilo-limoneuse et argileuse.
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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