négresses
\ne.ɡʁɛs\
The verdict
“négresses” is uncommon French (frequency #71,746 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,746
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de négresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-negresses · négresses · French
négresses · rank #71,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,746
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noyait
Nearest frequency peer: noyait (-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 « négresses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nok
nok
28,259 corpus weight
- noma
noma
28,258 corpus weight
- nomi
nomi
28,257 corpus weight
- noyait
noyait
28,256 corpus weight
- négresses
négresses
28,255 corpus weight
- obsessionne…
obsessionnels
28,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « négresses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | négresses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.ɡʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « négresses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
négresses is uncommon French at frequency #71,746 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ne.ɡʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de négresse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for négresses in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is négresses, spelled N-É-G-R-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de négresse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how négresses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce village est un amas confus de masures en bois ou en pisé, sales et délabrées, habitées par un peuple de prostituées négresses, bédouines, mauresques, juives et maltaises, vivant là, entassées pêle-mêle avec toutes sortes d’individus plus ou moins suspects, souteneurs et repris de justice pour la plupart.
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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