fastidieuses

\fas.ti.djøz\

/\fas.ti.djøz\/ adj

The verdict

“fastidieuses” is uncommon French (frequency #76,563 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,563
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fastidieux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fastidieuses · fastidieuses · French

fastidieuses · rank #76,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,563
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fantine

Nearest frequency peer: fantine (-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 « fastidieuses »

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 « fastidieuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fastidieuses
PropertyValue
Headwordfastidieuses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fas.ti.djøz\
Letters12
Frequency rank#76,563
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fastidieuses » en français

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « fantine » (#76,562), « Fatoumata » (#76,564), « fanas » (#76,561). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fastidieuses » est au #76,563. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fastidieuses is uncommon French at frequency #76,563 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fas.ti.djøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fastidieux.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fastidieuses, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fastidieuses, spelled F-A-S-T-I-D-I-E-U-S-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de fastidieux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Or, plus la vie est facile, plus ces occupations sont fastidieuses, à moins d’appartenir à la secte des quakers-tourneurs, à l’honorable corps des charpentiers ou des empailleurs d’oiseaux.

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 "fastidieuses"?
"fastidieuses" is spelled F-A-S-T-I-D-I-E-U-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fas.ti.djøz\.
What does "fastidieuses" mean?
As an adjective, "fastidieuses" means: Féminin pluriel de fastidieux.
How do you pronounce "fastidieuses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fastidieuses" 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 "fastidieuses", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list