poussiéreuses
\pu.sje.ʁøz\
The verdict
“poussiéreuses” is uncommon French (frequency #82,357 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,357
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de poussiéreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussiereuses · poussiéreuses · French
poussiéreuses · rank #82,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,357
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pours
Nearest frequency peer: pours (-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 « poussiéreuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pouillé
pouillé
17,648 corpus weight
- Poujade
Poujade
17,647 corpus weight
- poulaillers
poulaillers
17,646 corpus weight
- pours
pours
17,645 corpus weight
- poussiéreus…
poussiéreuses
17,644 corpus weight
- prierais
prierais
17,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poussiéreuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussiéreuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pu.sje.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #82,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poussiéreuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poussiéreuses is uncommon French at frequency #82,357 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pu.sje.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de poussiéreux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for poussiéreuses in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poussiéreuses, spelled P-O-U-S-S-I-É-R-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de poussiéreux.
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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