frimousse
\fʁi.mus\
The verdict
“frimousse” is uncommon French (frequency #64,462 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,462
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Visage, figure, en parlant d’un enfant ou d’une personne toute jeune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frimousse · frimousse · French
frimousse · rank #64,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frilosité
Nearest frequency peer: frilosité (-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 « frimousse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- francophiles
francophiles
35,542 corpus weight
- Frieda
Frieda
35,541 corpus weight
- frilosité
frilosité
35,540 corpus weight
- frimousse
frimousse
35,539 corpus weight
- frugal
frugal
35,538 corpus weight
- fruitée
fruitée
35,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frimousse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frimousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.mus\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frimousse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frimousse is uncommon French at frequency #64,462 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.mus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frimousse, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is frimousse, spelled F-R-I-M-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Visage, figure, en parlant d’un enfant ou d’une personne toute jeune.
- 2Association facétieuse, dans un message, de quelques caractères typographiques qui évoquent un visage expressif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frimousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je veux dévisager ce beau mufle-là et lui défoncer la frimousse.
Et Philibert, le jeune, tendre, zézéyant et crapuleux Philibert, au gentil profil de petit sémite, le Joas d'Athalie, doué d'une frimousse qui faisait se pâmer les filles.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).