animalité
\a.ni.ma.li.te\
The verdict
“animalité” is uncommon French (frequency #62,040 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,040
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des attributs et des facultés qui distinguent l’animal, qui lui sont propres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-animalite · animalité · French
animalité · rank #62,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,040
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anglicismes
Nearest frequency peer: anglicismes (-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 « animalité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amou
amou
37,964 corpus weight
- anesthésiant
anesthésiant
37,963 corpus weight
- anglicismes
anglicismes
37,962 corpus weight
- animalité
animalité
37,961 corpus weight
- antidouleurs
antidouleurs
37,960 corpus weight
- antitrust
antitrust
37,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « animalité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ni.ma.li.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « animalité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
animalité is uncommon French at frequency #62,040 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ni.ma.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for animalité, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is animalité, spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des attributs et des facultés qui distinguent l’animal, qui lui sont propres.
- 2Ensemble des caractères de l’animal par opposition à l’être humain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how animalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nature physico-chimique et les degrés de l’animalité, de la végétabilité et de la sidéralité, qui forment le fond de la constitution organique, suborganique ou inorganique des trois principales sortes d’individualités naturelles, sont, jusqu’à ce jour, des mystères que la chimie et la physique organiques et inorganiques n’ont point encore pu parvenir à…
— L’amour physique et naturel convient à toutes les créatures de Dieu, et s’il ne s’y mêle ni trouble ni inquiétude, il entretient cette simplicité divine, cette sainte animalité sans laquelle il n’est point de salut. L’ascétisme n’est qu’orgueil et révolte.
This word in other languages
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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