argileuses
\aʁ.ʒi.løz\
The verdict
“argileuses” is uncommon French (frequency #88,324 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,324
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de argileux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argileuses · argileuses · French
argileuses · rank #88,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,324
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argentiques
Nearest frequency peer: argentiques (-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 « argileuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appétissants
appétissants
11,681 corpus weight
- aquarelliste
aquarelliste
11,680 corpus weight
- arad
arad
11,679 corpus weight
- argentiques
argentiques
11,678 corpus weight
- argileuses
argileuses
11,677 corpus weight
- armoise
armoise
11,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « argileuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argileuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒi.løz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « argileuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
argileuses is uncommon French at frequency #88,324 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.ʒi.løz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de argileux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for argileuses in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is argileuses, spelled A-R-G-I-L-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de argileux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how argileuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont des calcaires compactes, sub-lithographiques, dont quelques-uns ont un faux aspect de calcaire grossier marin, et d’autres qui sont celluleux, alternent avec des marnes plus ou moins argileuses.
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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