autocrates
\o.to.kʁat\
The verdict
“autocrates” is uncommon French (frequency #95,571 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,571
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de autocrate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autocrates · autocrates · French
autocrates · rank #95,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,571
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autism
Nearest frequency peer: autism (-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 « autocrates »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aulus
aulus
4,433 corpus weight
- aurochs
aurochs
4,432 corpus weight
- autism
autism
4,431 corpus weight
- autocrates
autocrates
4,430 corpus weight
- avertira
avertira
4,428 corpus weight
- avilir
avilir
4,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autocrates » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autocrates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.kʁat\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autocrates » en français
Rare enough to double-check
autocrates is uncommon French at frequency #95,571 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.kʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de autocrate.".
autocrates doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is autocrates, spelled A-U-T-O-C-R-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de autocrate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how autocrates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Perdre des guerres n’est jamais bon pour les autocrates et, historiquement, il existe de nombreux exemples d’autocrates déchus à la suite de guerres perdues », résume en entrevue au Devoir le politicologue Joshua Tucker, directeur du Centre d’études supérieures sur la Russie de l’Université de New York.
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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