mesquineries
\mɛs.kin.ʁi\
The verdict
“mesquineries” is uncommon French (frequency #85,932 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,932
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mesquinerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesquineries · mesquineries · French
mesquineries · rank #85,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,932
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messianiques
Nearest frequency peer: messianiques (+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 « mesquineries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menottée
menottée
14,072 corpus weight
- Mensch
Mensch
14,071 corpus weight
- mesquineries
mesquineries
14,069 corpus weight
- messianiques
messianiques
14,068 corpus weight
- meurtries
meurtries
14,067 corpus weight
- MGF
MGF
14,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesquineries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesquineries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛs.kin.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesquineries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesquineries is uncommon French at frequency #85,932 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛs.kin.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mesquinerie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mesquineries in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mesquineries, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mesquinerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mesquineries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela va des petites mesquineries à la grande méchanceté.
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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