complaintes
\kɔ̃.plɛ̃t\
The verdict
“complaintes” is uncommon French (frequency #66,606 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,606
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de complainte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complaintes · complaintes · French
complaintes · rank #66,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,606
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commodément
Nearest frequency peer: commodément (-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 « complaintes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commentary
commentary
33,398 corpus weight
- commerciali…
commercialisent
33,397 corpus weight
- commodément
commodément
33,396 corpus weight
- complaintes
complaintes
33,395 corpus weight
- complétude
complétude
33,394 corpus weight
- concrétions
concrétions
33,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « complaintes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | complaintes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « complaintes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
complaintes is uncommon French at frequency #66,606 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.plɛ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de complainte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for complaintes in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is complaintes, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de complainte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how complaintes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soir venu, les soldats dansaient et chantaient jusqu’à la nuit tombée. Abraham avait appris les cadences, tantôt lentes, tantôt rapides, de ces chorégraphies martiales, ainsi que les paroles des complaintes de son peuple.
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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