misery
\ˈmɪz.ə.ɹi\
The verdict
“misery” is uncommon French (frequency #66,116 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,116
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-misery · misery · French
misery · rank #66,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,116
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mioches
Nearest frequency peer: mioches (-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 « misery »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Milford
Milford
33,889 corpus weight
- millerand
millerand
33,888 corpus weight
- mioches
mioches
33,886 corpus weight
- misery
misery
33,885 corpus weight
- Miura
Miura
33,884 corpus weight
- mièvre
mièvre
33,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « misery » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misery |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɪz.ə.ɹi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « misery » en français
Rare enough to double-check
misery is uncommon French at frequency #66,116 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmɪz.ə.ɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for misery in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is misery, spelled M-I-S-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Misère.
- 2Pénurie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how misery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Misery loves company.
Too many people in the underdeveloped nations live lives of misery.
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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