besogneux
\bə.zɔ.ɲø\
The verdict
“besogneux” is uncommon French (frequency #87,369 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,369
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans la gêne, dans le besoin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-besogneux · besogneux · French
besogneux · rank #87,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,369
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bertille
Nearest frequency peer: Bertille (-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 « besogneux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bellâtre
bellâtre
12,637 corpus weight
- Bertille
Bertille
12,633 corpus weight
- besogneux
besogneux
12,632 corpus weight
- bichonner
bichonner
12,630 corpus weight
- bigamie
bigamie
12,627 corpus weight
- bimoteur
bimoteur
12,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « besogneux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besogneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bə.zɔ.ɲø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « besogneux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
besogneux is uncommon French at frequency #87,369 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bə.zɔ.ɲø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for besogneux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is besogneux, spelled B-E-S-O-G-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans la gêne, dans le besoin.
- 2Qui fait une besogne médiocre et mal rétribuée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how besogneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaigneux était allé s’accouder près de la grande Minerve, de son air éploré ; et jamais détresse besogneuse ne l’avait plié davantage, sous l’angoisse continue de sa malchance.
Les petites gens eux, besogneux et si méritants, pour qui le passage des roussettes , des « tchatchas » et des draines était l'aubaine annuelle, quel tort n'allaient-ils pas subir ?
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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