costumière
\kɔs.ty.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“costumière” is uncommon French (frequency #71,392 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,392
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui fait, qui vend ou qui loue des costumes de théâtre, de bal, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-costumiere · costumière · French
costumière · rank #71,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,392
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupante
Nearest frequency peer: coupante (+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 « costumière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cornemuses
cornemuses
28,612 corpus weight
- corvo
corvo
28,611 corpus weight
- costumière
costumière
28,609 corpus weight
- coupante
coupante
28,608 corpus weight
- courrais
courrais
28,607 corpus weight
- courser
courser
28,606 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « costumière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costumière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔs.ty.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « costumière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
costumière is uncommon French at frequency #71,392 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔs.ty.mjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for costumière in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is costumière, spelled C-O-S-T-U-M-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui fait, qui vend ou qui loue des costumes de théâtre, de bal, etc.
- 2Celle qui s’occupe des costumes au théâtre, au cinéma, à la télévision, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how costumière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce soir-là, la costumière devait partir travailler au théâtre.
J’ai toujours dit à Marylin [Fitoussi], notre costumière : « Elle s’est enfermée, parce qu’elle arrive de la plage de Saint-Tropez, pieds nus. »
This word in other languages
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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