conteuse
\kɔ̃.tøz\
The verdict
“conteuse” is uncommon French (frequency #65,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,808
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui écrit ou raconte des contes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conteuse · conteuse · French
conteuse · rank #65,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contaminant
Nearest frequency peer: contaminant (-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 « conteuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constituère…
constituèrent
34,196 corpus weight
- consultativ…
consultatives
34,195 corpus weight
- contaminant
contaminant
34,194 corpus weight
- conteuse
conteuse
34,193 corpus weight
- contrefort
contrefort
34,192 corpus weight
- contrepied
contrepied
34,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « conteuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « conteuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
conteuse is uncommon French at frequency #65,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for conteuse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 conteuse, spelled C-O-N-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui écrit ou raconte des contes.
- 2Autrice de romans et de nouvelles.
- 3Celle qui invente des histoires pour abuser autrui.
- 4Appareil conçu pour raconter des histoires aux enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parlamente est une conteuse naïve, s’émouvant des récits qu’elle raconte sans recul critique.
Barbara Souffir est une conteuse hors pair, formée au chant et à la musicothérapie.
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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