admonester
\ad.mɔ.nɛs.te\
The verdict
“admonester” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une sévère réprimande à quelqu’un, sans condamner, mais en avertissant de ne pas recommencer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-admonester · admonester · French
admonester · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admonester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ad.mɔ.nɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
admonester is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ad.mɔ.nɛs.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
admonester has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is admonester, spelled A-D-M-O-N-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une sévère réprimande à quelqu’un, sans condamner, mais en avertissant de ne pas recommencer.
- 2Faire une remontrance, un blâme, à huis clos à un justiciable, avec défense de récidiver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how admonester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis comme le vin les grisait, ils se mirent à frapper sur les bouteilles avec des couteaux. De temps à autre une femme en robe de soie bruissante se levait de table, et les admonestait.
Le garde se contentait d’admonester les coupables, et dénonçait aux parents ceux-là seuls qui étaient coutumiers de laisser aller leurs vaches en maraude.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.