féminisé

\fe.mi.ni.ze\

/\fe.mi.ni.ze\/ adj

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The verdict

“féminisé” is uncommon French (frequency #90,754 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,754
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé principalement de femmes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-feminise · féminisé · French

féminisé · rank #90,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,754
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Félicia

Nearest frequency peer: Félicia (-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 « féminisé »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for féminisé
PropertyValue
Headwordféminisé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fe.mi.ni.ze\
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,754
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « féminisé » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.féminisétombe 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: « Félicia » (#90,753), « féria » (#90,755), « fy » (#90,752). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « féminisé » est au #90,754. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

féminisé is uncommon French at frequency #90,754 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fe.mi.ni.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé principalement de femmes.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for féminisé, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is féminisé, spelled F-É-M-I-N-I-S-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Composé principalement de femmes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Quant à la profession de secrétaire, elle est la plus féminisée de toutes les occupations : 99 % de toutes les secrétaires sont des femmes.

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 "féminisé"?
"féminisé" is spelled F-É-M-I-N-I-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fe.mi.ni.ze\.
What does "féminisé" mean?
As an adjective, "féminisé" means: Composé principalement de femmes.
How do you pronounce "féminisé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "féminisé" is \fe.mi.ni.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "féminisé" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

frétille#90,750fouteurs#90,738formatée#90,736goulette#90,778

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list