exiguë
\ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\
The verdict
“exiguë” is uncommon French (frequency #75,673 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,673
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de exigu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exigue · exiguë · French
exiguë · rank #75,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,673
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exorbitante
Nearest frequency peer: exorbitante (+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 « exiguë »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Esdras
Esdras
24,333 corpus weight
- exiguë
exiguë
24,328 corpus weight
- exorbitante
exorbitante
24,327 corpus weight
- explicit
explicit
24,326 corpus weight
- expulsent
expulsent
24,325 corpus weight
- factuels
factuels
24,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exiguë » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exiguë |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exiguë » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exiguë is uncommon French at frequency #75,673 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de exigu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exiguë, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists 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 exiguë, spelled E-X-I-G-U-Ë.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de exigu.
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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