serpillère
\sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“serpillère” is uncommon French (frequency #65,511 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,511
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de serpillière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serpillere · serpillère · French
serpillère · rank #65,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,511
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sentimentalem…
Nearest frequency peer: sentimentalement (-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 « serpillère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- secondo
secondo
34,493 corpus weight
- Seghers
Seghers
34,492 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalement
34,491 corpus weight
- serpillère
serpillère
34,490 corpus weight
- severe
severe
34,489 corpus weight
- shutdown
shutdown
34,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serpillère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpillère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serpillère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serpillère is uncommon French at frequency #65,511 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de serpillière.".
serpillère has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is serpillère, spelled S-E-R-P-I-L-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de serpillière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how serpillère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle place alors la serpillère en boule sur le balai, puis frotte, sans souci de couvrir une surface donnée.
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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