archidiocèse
\aʁ.ʃi.djɔ.sɛz\
The verdict
“archidiocèse” is uncommon French (frequency #62,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,051
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division administrative de l’Église catholique romaine et quelques autres églises, similaire à un diocèse mais sous la juridiction pastorale d’un archevêque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-archidiocese · archidiocèse · French
archidiocèse · rank #62,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,051
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Armande
Nearest frequency peer: Armande (+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 « archidiocèse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aran
aran
37,953 corpus weight
- arbrisseau
arbrisseau
37,952 corpus weight
- archidiocèse
archidiocèse
37,950 corpus weight
- Armande
Armande
37,949 corpus weight
- Arnhem
Arnhem
37,948 corpus weight
- articulant
articulant
37,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « archidiocèse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | archidiocèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʃi.djɔ.sɛz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « archidiocèse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
archidiocèse is uncommon French at frequency #62,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʃi.djɔ.sɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Division administrative de l’Église catholique romaine et quelques autres églises, similaire à un diocèse mais sous la juridiction pastorale d’un archevêque.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for archidiocèse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is archidiocèse, spelled A-R-C-H-I-D-I-O-C-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Division administrative de l’Église catholique romaine et quelques autres églises, similaire à un diocèse mais sous la juridiction pastorale d’un archevêque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how archidiocèse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La consultation, sous l’impulsion de l’archevêque de Yaoundé, aboutit à une résolution importante : en vue de promouvoir l’information conciliaire, il faut traduire les documents en ewondo, langue liturgique de l’archidiocèse.
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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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