calamiteuse
\ka.la.mi.tøz\
The verdict
“calamiteuse” is uncommon French (frequency #56,465 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,465
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de calamiteux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calamiteuse · calamiteuse · French
calamiteuse · rank #56,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,465
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caissières
Nearest frequency peer: caissières (-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 « calamiteuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bénef
bénef
43,539 corpus weight
- cadors
cadors
43,538 corpus weight
- caissières
caissières
43,537 corpus weight
- calamiteuse
calamiteuse
43,536 corpus weight
- calcinés
calcinés
43,535 corpus weight
- campagnarde
campagnarde
43,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calamiteuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calamiteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.la.mi.tøz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calamiteuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calamiteuse is uncommon French at frequency #56,465 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.la.mi.tøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de calamiteux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for calamiteuse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 calamiteuse, spelled C-A-L-A-M-I-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de calamiteux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how calamiteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hélas ! moi, ô Mârouf ! ô pauvre ! je dois subir (Allah le veut) une vieille calamiteuse.
Mais, globalement, « même s’il y a eu des progrès ces dernières années, la représentation de la justice, notamment de la phase d’audience, est calamiteuse », déplore Jacques Dallest.
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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