mesquinerie
\mɛs.kin.ʁi\
The verdict
“mesquinerie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,101 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,101
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est mesquin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesquinerie · mesquinerie · French
mesquinerie · rank #54,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,101
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menstruel
Nearest frequency peer: menstruel (-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 « mesquinerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- miche
miche
45,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesquinerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesquinerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛs.kin.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesquinerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesquinerie is uncommon French at frequency #54,101 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛs.kin.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mesquinerie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mesquinerie, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est mesquin.
- 2Médiocrité matérielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mesquinerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avez-vous jamais vu une plus grande mesquinerie ?
Il était bien obligé de s’avouer alors la mesquinerie de ses arguments, les méprisables raisons de ses résistances.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).