méprisée
\me.pʁi.ze\
The verdict
“méprisée” is uncommon French (frequency #60,227 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,227
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de mépriser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meprisee · méprisée · French
méprisée · rank #60,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,227
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mégalomane
Nearest frequency peer: mégalomane (-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 « méprisée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multisports
multisports
39,776 corpus weight
- mégalomane
mégalomane
39,775 corpus weight
- méprisée
méprisée
39,774 corpus weight
- métabolites
métabolites
39,773 corpus weight
- nargue
nargue
39,772 corpus weight
- NATO
NATO
39,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méprisée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méprisée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \me.pʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méprisée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méprisée is uncommon French at frequency #60,227 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \me.pʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de mépriser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for méprisée in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is méprisée, spelled M-É-P-R-I-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de mépriser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méprisée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette prétention de transcendance fondée sur rien — prétention que j’ai toujours méprisée chez les artistes et notamment chez les plasticiens — n’était-elle pas aussi la mienne, tout désargentinisé que je me considère ?
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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