serpillière
\sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“serpillière” is uncommon French (frequency #52,343 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,343
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toile grossière et claire en fil d’étoupe dont on se sert pour emballer les marchandises, pour laver les carrelages, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serpilliere · serpillière · French
serpillière · rank #52,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,343
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serpentine
Nearest frequency peer: serpentine (-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 « serpillière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sensuels
sensuels
47,662 corpus weight
- septime
septime
47,660 corpus weight
- serpentine
serpentine
47,659 corpus weight
- serpillière
serpillière
47,658 corpus weight
- sixièmes
sixièmes
47,655 corpus weight
- smog
smog
47,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « serpillière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpillière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serpillière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serpillière is uncommon French at frequency #52,343 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for serpillière, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is serpillière, spelled S-E-R-P-I-L-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Toile grossière et claire en fil d’étoupe dont on se sert pour emballer les marchandises, pour laver les carrelages, etc.
- 2Tablier long fait le plus souvent de cette sorte de toile.
- 3Torchon en toile grossière destiné au lavage des sols.
- 4Personne qui est incapable de réagir ; personne désespérée.
- 5Un des noms vernaculaires de la courtilière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serpillière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moment de mettre le cadavre dans la bière, l’infirmier enleva la serpillière de l’hôpital et demanda à un des amis du défunt qui se trouvait là de quoi payer le linceul.
Sans doute que la serpillère est humide, car une fois l’opération de dépoussiérage terminée, l’homme la rhabille d’un chiffon blanc immaculé et achève le polissage de l’inox.
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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