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tribunate

noun

tribunate is spelled T-R-I-B-U-N-A-T-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tribunate means “The state or office of a tribune” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tribunate is tribunates.

How many letters and syllables are in tribunate?

Letters9: T-R-I-B-U-N-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tribunate?

Tribunate appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with tribunate?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tribunate.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: turbinate.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of tribunate

  • tribunates plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tribunate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The state or office of a tribune.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tribunate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or office of a tribune:

LanguageWords
Frenchtribunat

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does tribunate come from?

From Latin tribūnātus, from tribūnus (“tribune, tribal leader”) + -ātus (“-ate”, forming adjectives), from tribus (“tribe”). Compare French tribunat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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