exquises
\ɛk.skiz\
The verdict
“exquises” is uncommon French (frequency #65,934 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,934
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de exquis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exquises · exquises · French
exquises · rank #65,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,934
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expressives
Nearest frequency peer: expressives (-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 « exquises »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- existons
existons
34,070 corpus weight
- explosant
explosant
34,069 corpus weight
- expressives
expressives
34,068 corpus weight
- exquises
exquises
34,067 corpus weight
- extravaganc…
extravagances
34,066 corpus weight
- exècre
exècre
34,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exquises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exquises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.skiz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exquises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exquises is uncommon French at frequency #65,934 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛk.skiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de exquis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for exquises in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is exquises, spelled E-X-Q-U-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de exquis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exquises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marchant d’un pas ferme, l’homme au vieil ulster d’un roux pisseux coudoyait presque ceux dont, quelques jours plus tôt, il avait été l’égal — des hommes bien vêtus, frais et dispos à la mine fleurie — et des femmes exquises, délicieusement toilettées, extravagamment surchargées de fourrures et de bijoux, aux visages radieux et aux yeux pleins de mystère…
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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