africanistes
\a.fʁi.ka.nist\
The verdict
“africanistes” is uncommon French (frequency #93,462 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,462
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de africaniste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-africanistes · africanistes · French
africanistes · rank #93,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,462
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affranchissent
Nearest frequency peer: affranchissent (-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 « africanistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affaissemen…
affaissements
6,541 corpus weight
- affranchiss…
affranchissent
6,540 corpus weight
- africanistes
africanistes
6,539 corpus weight
- agglutinati…
agglutination
6,537 corpus weight
- ahi
ahi
6,536 corpus weight
- Ahun
Ahun
6,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « africanistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | africanistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fʁi.ka.nist\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « africanistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
africanistes is uncommon French at frequency #93,462 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fʁi.ka.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de africaniste.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for africanistes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is africanistes, spelled A-F-R-I-C-A-N-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de africaniste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how africanistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le fait que les Dogon figurent une quarantaine de fois dans ce volume — quatre fois plus que les Anglais — me fait dire qu’il serait souhaitable de "dédogoniser" la pensée française… la "dégriaulisation" de la pensée dogon étant une opération en cours parmi les africanistes.
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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