mesquines
\mɛs.kin\
The verdict
“mesquines” is uncommon French (frequency #76,795 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,795
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de mesquin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesquines · mesquines · French
mesquines · rank #76,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,795
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mazars
Nearest frequency peer: mazars (-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 « mesquines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maylis
Maylis
23,208 corpus weight
- mazars
mazars
23,207 corpus weight
- mesquines
mesquines
23,206 corpus weight
- MHR
MHR
23,205 corpus weight
- microbiolog…
microbiologiste
23,204 corpus weight
- mineiro
mineiro
23,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesquines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesquines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛs.kin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesquines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesquines is uncommon French at frequency #76,795 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɛs.kin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de mesquin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mesquines in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mesquines, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de mesquin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mesquines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce croquis peindra, urbi et orbi', l’amour clandestin dans les mesquines proportions qu’y imprime le Paris de 1840.
Il a le loisir et la liberté de se désencarcaner des politiques partisanes mesquines, d’assumer pleinement et professionnellement son rôle de législateur, de scrutateur des comptes publics et de contrepoids populaire à la puissance exécutive.
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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