exiguïté
\eɡ.zi.ɡɥi.te\
The verdict
“exiguïté” is uncommon French (frequency #73,149 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,149
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est exigu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exiguite · exiguïté · French
exiguïté · rank #73,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,149
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exfiltrer
Nearest frequency peer: exfiltrer (-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 « exiguïté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ethos
ethos
26,857 corpus weight
- excentrée
excentrée
26,854 corpus weight
- exfiltrer
exfiltrer
26,853 corpus weight
- exiguïté
exiguïté
26,852 corpus weight
- existentiels
existentiels
26,851 corpus weight
- expertiser
expertiser
26,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exiguïté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exiguïté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \eɡ.zi.ɡɥi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exiguïté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exiguïté is uncommon French at frequency #73,149 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \eɡ.zi.ɡɥi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est exigu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for exiguïté in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is exiguïté, spelled E-X-I-G-U-Ï-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est exigu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exiguïté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant la fin du dîner, Marsillat sortit pour donner l’avoine à sa jument Fanchon, qu’il avait installée dans une grange un peu isolée du village, à cause de l’exiguïté de l’écurie du presbytère.
C’était le temps des exiguïtés : journaux, livres, publications de colportage, tout se réduisait au simple in-octavo pour les plus grandes mesures.
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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