modeste
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,156
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
modeste is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a de la retenue, de la modération, qui ne donne dans aucun excès. Pronounced \mɔ.dɛst\. It ranks #5,156 in French word frequency. Often confused with mouette and molette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modeste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for modeste is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.dɛst\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,156 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for modeste, with forms such as "mdoeste", "mmodeste", and "moddeste". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "mouette", "molette", "modestes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is modeste, spelled M-O-D-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la retenue, de la modération, qui ne donne dans aucun excès.
- 2Qui est modéré, simple, sans éclat, en parlant d’une chose.
- 3Subalterne.
- 4Qui est réservé dans la manière de penser et de parler de soi, qui a une opinion modérée de son mérite, humble.
- 5Petit en taille ou en valeur, peu nombreux.
- 6Qui a de la pudeur, qui observe la décence, en parlant des personnes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mdoeste,mmodeste,moddeste,modeset,modesste,modestte,modetse,modsete,moedste,omdeste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for modeste
Misspelling Variants of "modeste"
Frequency rank: #5,156 in French
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