méridiennes
\me.ʁi.djɛn\
The verdict
“méridiennes” is uncommon French (frequency #89,956 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,956
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de méridienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meridiennes · méridiennes · French
méridiennes · rank #89,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,956
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méthionine
Nearest frequency peer: méthionine (+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 « méridiennes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mégare
Mégare
10,048 corpus weight
- Méjean
Méjean
10,047 corpus weight
- méridiennes
méridiennes
10,045 corpus weight
- méthionine
méthionine
10,044 corpus weight
- météos
météos
10,043 corpus weight
- mûrie
mûrie
10,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méridiennes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méridiennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ʁi.djɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méridiennes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méridiennes is uncommon French at frequency #89,956 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ʁi.djɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de méridienne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for méridiennes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is méridiennes, spelled M-É-R-I-D-I-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de méridienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méridiennes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Simona ne quitte pas les méridiennes au soleil.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).