anti-autoritaire
\ɑ̃.ti.o.tɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“anti-autoritaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hostile à l'autorité politique, royale, religieuse, etc… Qui rejette la domination, l’autorité d’une personne investie du pouvoir de commander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-anti-autoritaire · anti-autoritaire · French
anti-autoritaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 | anti-autoritaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.o.tɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
anti-autoritaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ti.o.tɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
anti-autoritaire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is anti-autoritaire, spelled A-N-T-I---A-U-T-O-R-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Hostile à l'autorité politique, royale, religieuse, etc… Qui rejette la domination, l’autorité d’une personne investie du pouvoir de commander.
- 2(Sens moderne) Hostile à toute forme de soumission au pouvoir d'un éducateur, des parents, des maîtres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anti-autoritaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La monarchie anglaise a combattu la tendance ascétique anti-autoritaire des puritains.
Les anarchistes sont anti-autoritaires.
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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.