fastidieuse

\fas.ti.djøz\

/\fas.ti.djøz\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fastidieuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fastidieuse
PropertyValue
Headwordfastidieuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fas.ti.djøz\
Letters11
Frequency rank#52,688
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fastidieuse » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).fastidieusetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fessées » (#52,689), « falling » (#52,685), « FFT » (#52,691). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fastidieuse » est au #52,688. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de fastidieux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fastidieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fastidieuse"?
"fastidieuse" is spelled F-A-S-T-I-D-I-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fas.ti.djøz\.
What does "fastidieuse" mean?
As an adjective, "fastidieuse" means: Féminin singulier de fastidieux.
How do you pronounce "fastidieuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fastidieuse" is \fas.ti.djøz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fastidieuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list