pécheresse
\pɛ.ʃ(ə).ʁɛs\
The verdict
“pécheresse” is uncommon French (frequency #55,536 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui commet des péchés, qui est sujet au péché, qui est enclin au péché, qui est dans l’habitude du péché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pecheresse · pécheresse · French
pécheresse · rank #55,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,536
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pyrénéen
Nearest frequency peer: pyrénéen (-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 « pécheresse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pueblo
pueblo
44,469 corpus weight
- pui
pui
44,468 corpus weight
- Puisaye
Puisaye
44,467 corpus weight
- pyrénéen
pyrénéen
44,466 corpus weight
- pécheresse
pécheresse
44,465 corpus weight
- quake
quake
44,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pécheresse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pécheresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʃ(ə).ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pécheresse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pécheresse is uncommon French at frequency #55,536 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.ʃ(ə).ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui commet des péchés, qui est sujet au péché, qui est enclin au péché, qui est dans l’habitude du péché.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pécheresse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pécheresse, spelled P-É-C-H-E-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui commet des péchés, qui est sujet au péché, qui est enclin au péché, qui est dans l’habitude du péché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pécheresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne parle pas ce langage, bien sûr ! Oserait-elle troquer le doux roucoulement méridional contre cette brocaille sèche, ce brocard de pierrailles qu’on jurerait de l’allemand ? Ah ! pécheresse !
Pour cette pécheresse, Jésus a dit chez le pharisien : « Beaucoup de péchés lui sont remis , car elle a beaucoup aimé ».
This word in other languages
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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