frileuse
\fʁi.løz\
The verdict
“frileuse” is uncommon French (frequency #55,978 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,978
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capuchon porté par les femmes, en laine tricotée, pour l’hiver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frileuse · frileuse · French
frileuse · rank #55,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,978
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fresnel
Nearest frequency peer: Fresnel (-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 « frileuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fraisier
fraisier
44,026 corpus weight
- freinée
freinée
44,025 corpus weight
- Fresnel
Fresnel
44,024 corpus weight
- frileuse
frileuse
44,023 corpus weight
- Frioul
Frioul
44,022 corpus weight
- félicités
félicités
44,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frileuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frileuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.løz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frileuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frileuse is uncommon French at frequency #55,978 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.løz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capuchon porté par les femmes, en laine tricotée, pour l’hiver.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frileuse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is frileuse, spelled F-R-I-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Capuchon porté par les femmes, en laine tricotée, pour l’hiver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frileuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Après nos palatines, il y aura d’ailleurs nos bas, nos chaussons de nuit, nos bottines fourrées… — Et nos spencers, ces gros gilets de laine que nous mettons dès la Toussaint — Sans oublier nos mitaines et nos frileuses…
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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