pestiféré
\pɛs.ti.fe.ʁe\
The verdict
“pestiféré” is uncommon French (frequency #84,163 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,163
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est infecté de la peste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pestifere · pestiféré · French
pestiféré · rank #84,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,163
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pessah
Nearest frequency peer: Pessah (-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 « pestiféré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- persistes
persistes
15,841 corpus weight
- pesantes
pesantes
15,840 corpus weight
- Pessah
Pessah
15,839 corpus weight
- pestiféré
pestiféré
15,838 corpus weight
- pestilence
pestilence
15,837 corpus weight
- pharmaceuti…
pharmaceutical
15,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pestiféré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pestiféré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛs.ti.fe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pestiféré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pestiféré is uncommon French at frequency #84,163 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛs.ti.fe.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est infecté de la peste.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pestiféré, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pestiféré, spelled P-E-S-T-I-F-É-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est infecté de la peste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pestiféré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il venait d’un lieu pestiféré.
On brûla ces marchandises, comme pestiférées...
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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