modernistes
\mɔ.dɛʁ.nist\
The verdict
“modernistes” is uncommon French (frequency #55,444 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,444
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de moderniste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modernistes · modernistes · French
modernistes · rank #55,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,444
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Minos
Nearest frequency peer: Minos (-2 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 « modernistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minions
minions
44,560 corpus weight
- Minos
Minos
44,559 corpus weight
- modernistes
modernistes
44,557 corpus weight
- moldaves
moldaves
44,555 corpus weight
- monogame
monogame
44,554 corpus weight
- monopolise
monopolise
44,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modernistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modernistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ.nist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modernistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modernistes is uncommon French at frequency #55,444 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɔ.dɛʁ.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de moderniste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for modernistes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is modernistes, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de moderniste.
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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