huileuse
\ɥi.løz\
The verdict
“huileuse” is uncommon French (frequency #76,658 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,658
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de huileux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huileuse · huileuse · French
huileuse · rank #76,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,658
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hotspot
Nearest frequency peer: hotspot (-2 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 « huileuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Heyer
Heyer
23,348 corpus weight
- hotspot
hotspot
23,345 corpus weight
- huileuse
huileuse
23,343 corpus weight
- Huningue
Huningue
23,341 corpus weight
- huon
huon
23,339 corpus weight
- hydroponique
hydroponique
23,338 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huileuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huileuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɥi.løz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huileuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huileuse is uncommon French at frequency #76,658 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɥi.løz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de huileux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for huileuse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 huileuse, spelled H-U-I-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de huileux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how huileuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme les pertes d’eau pourraient défluidifier le sang, les capsules surrénales se trouvent là fort à propos pour y déverser une liqueur huileuse qui le délaie un peu.
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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