fastidieuse
\fas.ti.djøz\
The verdict
“fastidieuse” is uncommon French (frequency #52,688 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,688
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fastidieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fastidieuse · fastidieuse · French
fastidieuse · rank #52,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,688
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fessées
Nearest frequency peer: fessées (+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 « fastidieuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- facilitateur
facilitateur
47,317 corpus weight
- falling
falling
47,316 corpus weight
- fastidieuse
fastidieuse
47,313 corpus weight
- fessées
fessées
47,312 corpus weight
- FFT
FFT
47,310 corpus weight
- filoche
filoche
47,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fastidieuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fastidieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fas.ti.djøz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fastidieuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fastidieuse is uncommon French at frequency #52,688 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fas.ti.djøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fastidieux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fastidieuse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fastidieuse, spelled F-A-S-T-I-D-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fastidieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fastidieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me fallait, selon les jours, l’heure de déplacement et la pluviométrie, entre vingt et trente-cinq minutes pour me rendre sur mon lieu de travail où un parc de stationnement réservé au personnel m’évitait la fastidieuse et exaspérante recherche d’une place.
Dans les Méditations sur la connaissance, la vérité et les idées, Leibniz note que les tentatives de syllogistiser les Eléments d’Euclide ne sont pas utiles, car cette mise en forme est trop fastidieuse (GP, IV, 426).
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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