outrancière
\u.tʁɑ̃.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“outrancière” is uncommon French (frequency #62,502 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,502
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de outrancier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outranciere · outrancière · French
outrancière · rank #62,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,502
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oury
Nearest frequency peer: Oury (-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 « outrancière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Oullins
Oullins
37,502 corpus weight
- ourdi
ourdi
37,501 corpus weight
- Oury
Oury
37,500 corpus weight
- outrancière
outrancière
37,499 corpus weight
- palliatif
palliatif
37,497 corpus weight
- palmeraie
palmeraie
37,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outrancière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outrancière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \u.tʁɑ̃.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outrancière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outrancière is uncommon French at frequency #62,502 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \u.tʁɑ̃.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de outrancier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for outrancière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is outrancière, spelled O-U-T-R-A-N-C-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de outrancier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how outrancière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicola aime d'ailleurs beaucoup les Costars, une formation française de l’époque qui mélange la banane rock’n’roll outrancière des Stray Cats avec les tables de la loi édictées par Elvis.
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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