espiègles
\ɛs.pjɛɡl\
The verdict
“espiègles” is uncommon French (frequency #96,896 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,896
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de l’adjectif espiègle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espiegles · espiègles · French
espiègles · rank #96,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,896
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esto
Nearest frequency peer: esto (+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 « espiègles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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esclaffe
3,108 corpus weight
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escortant
3,107 corpus weight
- espiègles
espiègles
3,105 corpus weight
- esto
esto
3,104 corpus weight
- estudiantin
estudiantin
3,103 corpus weight
- exfiltré
exfiltré
3,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « espiègles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espiègles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛs.pjɛɡl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « espiègles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
espiègles is uncommon French at frequency #96,896 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛs.pjɛɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de l’adjectif espiègle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for espiègles, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is espiègles, spelled E-S-P-I-È-G-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de l’adjectif espiègle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espiègles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Pierre Hervet (hautbois et orgue) et Hélène du Boisbaudry (orgue) feront résonner leurs instruments avec des notes espiègles de Telemann, de grandes fugues de Bach, mais aussi de la musique romantique, Borodine, Brahms, Franck.
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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