orgueilleuse
\ɔʁ.ɡœ.jøz\
The verdict
“orgueilleuse” is uncommon French (frequency #59,504 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,504
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui montre un certain orgueil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orgueilleuse · orgueilleuse · French
orgueilleuse · rank #59,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,504
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orc
Nearest frequency peer: orc (-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 « orgueilleuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oratorio
oratorio
40,500 corpus weight
- orbes
orbes
40,499 corpus weight
- orc
orc
40,498 corpus weight
- orgueilleuse
orgueilleuse
40,497 corpus weight
- ornant
ornant
40,496 corpus weight
- osti
osti
40,495 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orgueilleuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orgueilleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ɡœ.jøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orgueilleuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orgueilleuse is uncommon French at frequency #59,504 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.ɡœ.jøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui montre un certain orgueil.".
orgueilleuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 orgueilleuse, spelled O-R-G-U-E-I-L-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui montre un certain orgueil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orgueilleuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En tout cas, elle n’aurait jamais accepté de passer pour une orgueilleuse ou une moralisatrice ou, pire encore, de donner l’image d'une femme malheureuse.
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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