teigneux
\tɛ.ɲø\
The verdict
“teigneux” is uncommon French (frequency #68,694 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,694
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la teigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-teigneux · teigneux · French
teigneux · rank #68,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,694
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH telluriques
Nearest frequency peer: telluriques (+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 « teigneux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tanis
Tanis
31,310 corpus weight
- tannage
tannage
31,309 corpus weight
- teigneux
teigneux
31,307 corpus weight
- telluriques
telluriques
31,306 corpus weight
- terriennes
terriennes
31,305 corpus weight
- thalasso
thalasso
31,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « teigneux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teigneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛ.ɲø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « teigneux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
teigneux is uncommon French at frequency #68,694 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɛ.ɲø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
teigneux has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is teigneux, spelled T-E-I-G-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a la teigne.
- 2Dont on ne peut pas se débarrasser à cause de sa persévérance.
- 3Méchant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teigneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons tué le chien teigneux.
Murillo lui-même donne souvent à ses saints des mines patibulaires, et, dans son beau tableau de Sainte Elisabeth, l'enfant teigneux et le mendiant qui a un ulcère à la jambe inspirent trop d’horreur pour laisser de la place à l’admiration.
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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