ménestrels
\me.nɛs.tʁɛl\
The verdict
“ménestrels” is uncommon French (frequency #81,372 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,372
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ménestrel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menestrels · ménestrels · French
ménestrels · rank #81,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,372
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mémorielles
Nearest frequency peer: mémorielles (-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 « ménestrels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muséographi…
muséographique
18,634 corpus weight
- méconnaisse…
méconnaissent
18,633 corpus weight
- médicinaux
médicinaux
18,632 corpus weight
- mémorielles
mémorielles
18,630 corpus weight
- ménestrels
ménestrels
18,629 corpus weight
- métissages
métissages
18,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ménestrels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ménestrels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.nɛs.tʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ménestrels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ménestrels is uncommon French at frequency #81,372 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.nɛs.tʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ménestrel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ménestrels, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ménestrels, spelled M-É-N-E-S-T-R-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ménestrel.
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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