attributaire
\a.tʁi.by.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“attributaire” is uncommon French (frequency #99,887 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,887
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui à qui a été attribué un lot, un héritage, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attributaire · attributaire · French
attributaire · rank #99,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,887
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attirances
Nearest frequency peer: attirances (-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 « attributaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assourdissa…
assourdissantes
118 corpus weight
- attempt
attempt
116 corpus weight
- attirances
attirances
115 corpus weight
- attributaire
attributaire
114 corpus weight
- avertisse
avertisse
112 corpus weight
- axone
axone
110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attributaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attributaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tʁi.by.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #99,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attributaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attributaire is uncommon French at frequency #99,887 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.tʁi.by.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for attributaire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is attributaire, spelled A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui à qui a été attribué un lot, un héritage, etc.
- 2Personne physique ou morale qui perçoit le versement de la ou des prestations familiales, en étant ou non l’allocataire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attributaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un acte de partage contient une clause aux termes de laquelle l'un des copartageants, attributaire d'un lot de terrain sur lequel existe un bâtiment à usage d'auberge, aura…
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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