autocratie

\o.to.kʁa.si\

/\o.to.kʁa.si\/ noun

The verdict

“autocratie” is uncommon French (frequency #64,247 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,247
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gouvernement d’un autocrate, dictature, monarchie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autocratie · autocratie · French

autocratie · rank #64,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,247
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aventura

Nearest frequency peer: aventura (+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 « autocratie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autocratie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for autocratie
PropertyValue
Headwordautocratie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.to.kʁa.si\
Letters10
Frequency rank#64,247
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « autocratie » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).autocratietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « aventura » (#64,248), « attelés » (#64,245), « attaqueront » (#64,244). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autocratie » est au #64,247. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

autocratie is uncommon French at frequency #64,247 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.kʁa.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for autocratie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is autocratie, spelled A-U-T-O-C-R-A-T-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gouvernement d’un autocrate, dictature, monarchie.
  2. 2
    Régime politique d’un autoritarisme absolu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how autocratie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On a pendu les régicides et proclamé sous Alexandre III, l’autocratie « inébranlable ».
  2. Peut-être parce que, depuis le XIᵉ siècle, la seule théorie politique de l’islam a été celle de l’obéissance passive à toute autorité de facto, le gouvernement par consentement reste un concept inconnu : l’autocratie a été la véritable et, pour l’essentiel, l’unique expérience.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autocratie"?
"autocratie" is spelled A-U-T-O-C-R-A-T-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.to.kʁa.si\.
What does "autocratie" mean?
As a noun, "autocratie" means: Gouvernement d’un autocrate, dictature, monarchie.
How do you pronounce "autocratie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autocratie" is \o.to.kʁa.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autocratie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list