notorious
\noʊ.ˈtɔɹ.i.əs\
The verdict
“notorious” is uncommon French (frequency #87,890 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,890
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ayant mauvaise réputation. Infâme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-notorious · notorious · French
notorious · rank #87,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,890
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noticias
Nearest frequency peer: noticias (-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 « notorious »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nommage
nommage
12,114 corpus weight
- noticias
noticias
12,112 corpus weight
- notorious
notorious
12,111 corpus weight
- Noémi
Noémi
12,110 corpus weight
- nucleus
nucleus
12,109 corpus weight
- nudisme
nudisme
12,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « notorious » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | notorious |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \noʊ.ˈtɔɹ.i.əs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « notorious » en français
Rare enough to double-check
notorious is uncommon French at frequency #87,890 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \noʊ.ˈtɔɹ.i.əs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ayant mauvaise réputation. Infâme.".
notorious doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is notorious, spelled N-O-T-O-R-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ayant mauvaise réputation. Infâme.
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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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