autodestruction
\o.to.dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“autodestruction” is uncommon French (frequency #51,900 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,900
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Destruction d’une chose par elle-même ou d’un être par lui-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autodestruction · autodestruction · French
autodestruction · rank #51,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,900
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auteures
Nearest frequency peer: auteures (-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 « autodestruction »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- austères
austères
48,103 corpus weight
- auteures
auteures
48,102 corpus weight
- autodestruc…
autodestruction
48,101 corpus weight
- babines
babines
48,100 corpus weight
- badine
badine
48,099 corpus weight
- bagarreur
bagarreur
48,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autodestruction » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autodestruction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #51,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autodestruction » en français
Rare enough to double-check
autodestruction is uncommon French at frequency #51,900 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Destruction d’une chose par elle-même ou d’un être par lui-même.".
autodestruction doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is autodestruction, spelled A-U-T-O-D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Destruction d’une chose par elle-même ou d’un être par lui-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autodestruction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durkheim lui-même était gêné par le taux de suicide extrêmement bas de l'Angleterre du XIXᵉ siècle. Une application rigide de son modèle explicatif ferait s'attendre pour cette masse exceptionnellement urbanisée qu'était le Royaume-Uni entre 1850 et 1900, à des taux d’autodestruction élevés. Or il n'en était rien.
Depuis tout à l'heure, j'ai lancé un ordre d'autodestruction irréversible.
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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