menstruel
\mɑ̃s.tʁɥɛl\
The verdict
“menstruel” is uncommon French (frequency #54,100 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,100
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui arrive tous les mois, qui a rapport à la menstruation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menstruel · menstruel · French
menstruel · rank #54,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,100
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mendel
Nearest frequency peer: Mendel (-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 « menstruel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Matic
Matic
45,906 corpus weight
- Mendel
Mendel
45,902 corpus weight
- menstruel
menstruel
45,901 corpus weight
- mesquinerie
mesquinerie
45,900 corpus weight
- mettions
mettions
45,898 corpus weight
- meursault
meursault
45,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « menstruel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menstruel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɑ̃s.tʁɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « menstruel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
menstruel is uncommon French at frequency #54,100 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɑ̃s.tʁɥɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui arrive tous les mois, qui a rapport à la menstruation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for menstruel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 menstruel, spelled M-E-N-S-T-R-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui arrive tous les mois, qui a rapport à la menstruation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menstruel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est d'usage courant que les pensionnaires travaillent même en période menstruelle ; la tenancière use de savants maquillages pour laisser ignorer au client l'état de sa partenaire.
On ne prend les mots qu'avec des gants : à menstruel on préfère périodique, et l'on va répétant qu'il est des termes médicaux qui ne doivent pas sortir des laboratoires ou du Codex.
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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