mesquins
\mɛs.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“mesquins” is uncommon French (frequency #61,696 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,696
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de mesquin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesquins · mesquins · French
mesquins · rank #61,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,696
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meteor
Nearest frequency peer: meteor (+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 « mesquins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Menthon
Menthon
38,309 corpus weight
- Merad
Merad
38,308 corpus weight
- mercado
mercado
38,307 corpus weight
- mesquins
mesquins
38,305 corpus weight
- meteor
meteor
38,304 corpus weight
- miraculé
miraculé
38,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mesquins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mesquins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛs.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mesquins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mesquins is uncommon French at frequency #61,696 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɛs.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de mesquin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mesquins, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mesquins, spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de mesquin.
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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