mendiante
\mɑ̃.djɑ̃t\
The verdict
“mendiante” is uncommon French (frequency #69,236 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,236
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui sollicite des dons pour survivre, qui vit de mendicité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mendiante · mendiante · French
mendiante · rank #69,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,236
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH medal
Nearest frequency peer: medal (-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 « mendiante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mauriciens
Mauriciens
30,771 corpus weight
- medal
medal
30,767 corpus weight
- mendiante
mendiante
30,765 corpus weight
- minisérie
minisérie
30,762 corpus weight
- minéralisat…
minéralisation
30,761 corpus weight
- mobilière
mobilière
30,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mendiante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mendiante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.djɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mendiante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mendiante is uncommon French at frequency #69,236 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.djɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui sollicite des dons pour survivre, qui vit de mendicité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mendiante, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mendiante, spelled M-E-N-D-I-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui sollicite des dons pour survivre, qui vit de mendicité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mendiante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce furent les jeunes gens qui trouvèrent. Un soir, plusieurs d’entre eux attendirent les demoiselles Amadou à la sortie d’un village, et comme elles étaient des mendiantes, ils se conduisirent vis-à-vis d’elles avec grossièreté.
Les mendiantes et les prostituées sont également marginalisées par la société canadienne.
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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