bigoterie
\bi.ɡɔ.tʁi\
The verdict
“bigoterie” is uncommon French (frequency #84,563 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,563
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dévotion outrée et superstitieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigoterie · bigoterie · French
bigoterie · rank #84,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,563
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH belliciste
Nearest frequency peer: belliciste (-2 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 « bigoterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bellefontai…
Bellefontaine
15,441 corpus weight
- belliciste
belliciste
15,440 corpus weight
- bigoterie
bigoterie
15,438 corpus weight
- Biguglia
Biguglia
15,436 corpus weight
- binary
binary
15,435 corpus weight
- bipartite
bipartite
15,434 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bigoterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bigoterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ɡɔ.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bigoterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bigoterie is uncommon French at frequency #84,563 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ɡɔ.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dévotion outrée et superstitieuse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bigoterie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bigoterie, spelled B-I-G-O-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Dévotion outrée et superstitieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bigoterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette régularité mesquine, cette pauvreté d’idées que tout trahit, ne s’exprime que par un seul mot, et ce mot est bigoterie.
Et quant au préjugé, au respect humain, etc., qui interdit d’assister aux noces d’une personne comme moi, j’espère que vous êtes au-dessus de ça, malgré toutes vos bigoteries.
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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