adulation
\a.dy.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“adulation” is uncommon French (frequency #90,368 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,368
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’aduler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adulation · adulation · French
adulation · rank #90,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,368
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH addenda
Nearest frequency peer: addenda (-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 « adulation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accroupit
accroupit
9,636 corpus weight
- acheminant
acheminant
9,635 corpus weight
- addenda
addenda
9,634 corpus weight
- adulation
adulation
9,633 corpus weight
- affectueuses
affectueuses
9,632 corpus weight
- affilées
affilées
9,631 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adulation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dy.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adulation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adulation is uncommon French at frequency #90,368 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.dy.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’aduler.".
adulation has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is adulation, spelled A-D-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’aduler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne regimbai point contre des adulations qui ne pouvaient plus en aucun cas me faire changer d’avis ; je les accueillis comme la naïve expression du médiocre avait rendu le goût indulgent et émoussé le sens acéré des choses supérieures.
Sous les gouvernements autoritaires, comme le premier Empire, l'Etat s’en est servi pour contraindre le clergé catholique à la soumission la plus humiliante, aux adulations les plus basses, même à un rôle répugnant de policier, en usant contre les ministres des cultes récalcitrants de moyens coercitifs violents.
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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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