exiguïté
French, noun
exiguïté is spelled E-X-I-G-U-Ï-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exiguïté is a French feminine noun meaning “smallness, crampedness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, exigüité is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of exiguïté”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère de ce qui est exigu”.
What does exiguïté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesmallness, crampedness
noun
- 1
femininepost-1990 spelling of exiguïté
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère de ce qui est exigu.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de exiguïté.
noun: 1. Variante de exiguïté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of exiguïté
- exiguïtés plural
- exiguité alternative
- exigüité alternative
- exigüités plural
- exiguités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to exiguïté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exiguïté in French?
exiguïté appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).