exigu
\ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\
The verdict
“exigu” is uncommon French (frequency #52,052 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,052
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit, modique, avec insuffisance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exigu · exigu · French
exigu · rank #52,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,052
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exagérons
Nearest frequency peer: exagérons (-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 « exigu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- euthanasier
euthanasier
47,951 corpus weight
- exagérons
exagérons
47,950 corpus weight
- exigu
exigu
47,949 corpus weight
- exos
exos
47,948 corpus weight
- exploitait
exploitait
47,947 corpus weight
- extravagants
extravagants
47,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exigu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exigu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exigu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exigu is uncommon French at frequency #52,052 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit, modique, avec insuffisance.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for exigu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 exigu, spelled E-X-I-G-U.
Definition
- 1Petit, modique, avec insuffisance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exigu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La somme était fort exiguë.
Son logement est exigu.
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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