autocratie
\o.to.kʁa.si\
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
- asynchrone
asynchrone
35,759 corpus weight
- attaqueront
attaqueront
35,757 corpus weight
- attelés
attelés
35,756 corpus weight
- autocratie
autocratie
35,754 corpus weight
- aventura
aventura
35,753 corpus weight
- Azzedine
Azzedine
35,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autocratie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autocratie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.kʁa.si\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autocratie » en français
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
- 1Gouvernement d’un autocrate, dictature, monarchie.
- 2Régime politique d’un autoritarisme absolu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autocratie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a pendu les régicides et proclamé sous Alexandre III, l’autocratie « inébranlable ».
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.
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.
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