autodafé
\o.to.da.fe\
The verdict
“autodafé” is uncommon French (frequency #74,580 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,580
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cérémonie dans laquelle l’Inquisition faisait exécuter ses jugements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autodafe · autodafé · French
autodafé · rank #74,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,580
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auster
Nearest frequency peer: auster (-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 « autodafé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aureus
aureus
25,425 corpus weight
- Aussie
Aussie
25,423 corpus weight
- auster
auster
25,422 corpus weight
- autodafé
autodafé
25,421 corpus weight
- aza
aza
25,420 corpus weight
- Aziza
Aziza
25,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autodafé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autodafé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.da.fe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autodafé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
autodafé is uncommon French at frequency #74,580 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.da.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for autodafé, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 autodafé, spelled A-U-T-O-D-A-F-É.
Definition
- 1Cérémonie dans laquelle l’Inquisition faisait exécuter ses jugements.
- 2Exécution des jugements qui condamnaient au supplice du feu.
- 3Acte de brûler des livres ou des bibliothèques.
- 4Destruction massive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autodafé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On sent que s’il le pouvait il rétablirait l’inquisition et les autodafés, rien que pour se donner la joie âcre et cruelle de condamner les Juifs et de les voir rôtir à petit feu. Il en convient d’ailleurs sans peine. […]. On comprend aussitôt pourquoi M. Drumont flétrit la Révolution. C’est qu'elle nous a conduit au point où il faut nous arrêter ; c’est…
Mais il semble qu’avec les autodafés du Vatican et le taux d’usure des parchemins, il ait disparu de la surface de la terre.
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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