frondeuse
\fʁɔ̃.døz\
The verdict
“frondeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #88,650 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,650
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui fronde, qui critique les autorités établies ou les opinions reçues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frondeuse · frondeuse · French
frondeuse · rank #88,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH froidure
Nearest frequency peer: froidure (-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 « frondeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fraudent
fraudent
11,354 corpus weight
- friant
friant
11,353 corpus weight
- froidure
froidure
11,352 corpus weight
- frondeuse
frondeuse
11,351 corpus weight
- frémissemen…
frémissements
11,350 corpus weight
- fumerolles
fumerolles
11,349 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frondeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frondeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ̃.døz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frondeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frondeuse is uncommon French at frequency #88,650 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɔ̃.døz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for frondeuse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is frondeuse, spelled F-R-O-N-D-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui fronde, qui critique les autorités établies ou les opinions reçues.
- 2Opposante politique sous Louis XIV.
- 3Celle qui contredit, qui critique, qui blâme.
- 4Parlementaire contestant la ligne politique de son groupe politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how frondeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On attendra de connaître le sort réservé aux frondeuses, mais aussi à Eugénie Le Sommer et Sarah Bouhaddi, toutes deux écartées du temps de Corinne Diacre.
Ils sont une petite escouade à avoir suivi Benoît Hamon, qui a lancé son mouvement l’été dernier : les anciens députés Barbara Romagnan, frondeuse historique, Pascal Cherki, Michel Pouzol ou encore Aurélie Filippetti.
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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