outrancier
\u.tʁɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“outrancier” is uncommon French (frequency #63,974 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,974
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pousse les choses à l’excès, qui exagère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outrancier · outrancier · French
outrancier · rank #63,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,974
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outillages
Nearest frequency peer: outillages (-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 « outrancier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- onomatopée
onomatopée
36,031 corpus weight
- outillages
outillages
36,028 corpus weight
- outrancier
outrancier
36,027 corpus weight
- ouzbek
ouzbek
36,026 corpus weight
- owner
owner
36,025 corpus weight
- pacificateur
pacificateur
36,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outrancier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outrancier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \u.tʁɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outrancier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outrancier is uncommon French at frequency #63,974 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \u.tʁɑ̃.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui pousse les choses à l’excès, qui exagère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for outrancier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is outrancier, spelled O-U-T-R-A-N-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui pousse les choses à l’excès, qui exagère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outrancier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] des observateurs, […] signalent chez les campagnards du Lot comme une tare tout à fait caractéristique un individualisme outrancier, féroce, têtu, rétrograde qui leur a laissé ignorer jusqu’à ce jour les bienfaits de la solidarité, de l’entr’aide et même , dans bien des cas, de l’assurance et du remembrement.
Je n’attache pas une importance outrancière à ces souvenirs échelonnés sur divers stades de mon enfance, mais il est d’une certaine utilité pour moi de les rassembler ici en cet instant, parce qu’ils sont le cadre — ou des fragments du cadre — dans lequel tout le reste s’est logé.
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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