modiste
\mɔ.dist\
The verdict
“modiste” is uncommon French (frequency #83,170 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,170
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrière en modes ; marchande de modes → voir modes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modiste · modiste · French
modiste · rank #83,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitra
Nearest frequency peer: mitra (-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 « modiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mitigation
mitigation
16,833 corpus weight
- mitra
mitra
16,832 corpus weight
- modiste
modiste
16,831 corpus weight
- moignons
moignons
16,830 corpus weight
- monin
monin
16,828 corpus weight
- monolithes
monolithes
16,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modiste is uncommon French at frequency #83,170 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.dist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for modiste in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is modiste, spelled M-O-D-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrière en modes ; marchande de modes → voir modes.
- 2Ouvrière qui confectionne les chapeaux féminins pour le marchand de modes (c’est-à-dire pour le modiste selon l’acception vieillie).
- 3Personne dont le métier consiste à réaliser sur mesure des chapeaux et à les vendre dans sa boutique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fallait la voir regarder, de ses yeux bordés de rouge, les étalages des bas de soie brodés, et les chapeaux joliment chiffonnés, qui, chez les modistes, se dressent fièrement au haut des champignons de palissandre !
Ils ne fréquentent chez les marchands et les modistes que pour se gausser de notre manque d’instruction et pour les beuveries.
This word in other languages
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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