quenouille
The verdict
“quenouille” is an uncommon French word, ranked #78,778 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #78,778
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bâton à l’extrémité supérieure duquel on attache des fibres à filer en le dévidant au moyen du fuseau ou du rouet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quenouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kə.nuj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quenouille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quenouille is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kə.nuj\. Corpus data places it at rank #78,778 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quenouille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quenouille, spelled Q-U-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bâton à l’extrémité supérieure duquel on attache des fibres à filer en le dévidant au moyen du fuseau ou du rouet.
- 2Quantité de lin ou de chanvre dont une quenouille est chargée.
- 3Chose en forme de fuseau, dont la forme évoque celle d’une quenouille.
- 4Chose en forme de fuseau, dont la forme évoque celle d’une quenouille.
- 5Arbres fruitiers qui sont taillés de manière que le branchage se rapproche de la forme d’une quenouille.
- 6Colonnes, piliers qui sont aux quatre coins de certains lits.
- 7Maladie fongique des graminées.
- 8Plantes de la famille des typhacées, plus précisément la massette à larges feuilles (Typha latifolia) et la massette à feuilles étroites (Typha angustifolia).
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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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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-N-O-U-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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