exigus
\ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\
The verdict
“exigus” is uncommon French (frequency #74,781 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,781
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de exigu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exigus · exigus · French
exigus · rank #74,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,781
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH examinerons
Nearest frequency peer: examinerons (-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 « exigus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- examinerons
examinerons
25,221 corpus weight
- exigus
exigus
25,220 corpus weight
- existential…
existentialiste
25,219 corpus weight
- explosées
explosées
25,217 corpus weight
- expéditeurs
expéditeurs
25,215 corpus weight
- exulte
exulte
25,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exigus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exigus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exigus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exigus is uncommon French at frequency #74,781 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛɡ.zi.ɡy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de exigu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exigus, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is exigus, spelled E-X-I-G-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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