espièglerie
\ɛs.pjɛ.ɡlə.ʁi\
The verdict
“espièglerie” is uncommon French (frequency #83,848 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,848
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite malice, facétie que fait un enfant espiègle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espieglerie · espièglerie · French
espièglerie · rank #83,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,848
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essorer
Nearest frequency peer: essorer (+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 « espièglerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- environne
environne
16,157 corpus weight
- envolaient
envolaient
16,156 corpus weight
- espièglerie
espièglerie
16,153 corpus weight
- essorer
essorer
16,152 corpus weight
- estacade
estacade
16,151 corpus weight
- estompée
estompée
16,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « espièglerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espièglerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pjɛ.ɡlə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « espièglerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
espièglerie is uncommon French at frequency #83,848 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.pjɛ.ɡlə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for espièglerie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is espièglerie, spelled E-S-P-I-È-G-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Petite malice, facétie que fait un enfant espiègle.
- 2Caractère espiègle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espièglerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis une petite fille d'environ quatorze ans qui jouait au volant avec une de ses camarades, et dont les rires et les espiègleries amusaient les voisins.
Ahmed Abdou souffrait en silence de ces espiègleries. Il était jaloux de ces jeux auxquels il n’avait point part.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).