molester
\mɔ.lɛs.te\
The verdict
“molester” is uncommon French (frequency #85,029 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,029
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Houspiller, maltraiter quelqu’un en paroles ou en actions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-molester · molester · French
molester · rank #85,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,029
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modulateur
Nearest frequency peer: modulateur (-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 « molester »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mixés
mixés
14,976 corpus weight
- mnémonique
mnémonique
14,975 corpus weight
- Modane
Modane
14,974 corpus weight
- modulateur
modulateur
14,973 corpus weight
- molester
molester
14,972 corpus weight
- monarch
monarch
14,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « molester » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.lɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « molester » en français
Rare enough to double-check
molester is uncommon French at frequency #85,029 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.lɛs.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
molester has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is molester, spelled M-O-L-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Houspiller, maltraiter quelqu’un en paroles ou en actions.
- 2Tourmenter de quelque manière que ce soit, inquiéter par des embarras suscités mal à propos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how molester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai ouï dire que cette communauté avait ses dangers ; que les calopsittes étaient susceptibles de molester les jeunes ondulées au sortir du nid, de leur couper les pattes, en un mot de leur faire de fort mauvaises plaisanteries.
Ils ne m’aiment pas. Ils ne m’ont jamais aimée. Au mieux, ils m’ignorent. Au pire, ils me molestent quand ils ont un peu trop bu l’arack.
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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