bureaucrate
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,611
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bureaucrate is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fonctionnaire confiné dans l’atmosphère des bureaux auxquels il attribue une importance exagérée. Pronounced \by.ʁɔ.kʁat\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bureaucrate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.ʁɔ.kʁat\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #60,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bureaucrate is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \by.ʁɔ.kʁat\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,611 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bureaucrate in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bureaucrate, spelled B-U-R-E-A-U-C-R-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fonctionnaire confiné dans l’atmosphère des bureaux auxquels il attribue une importance exagérée.
- 2Statut donné à certains contributeurs des wikis utilisant MediaWiki, élus par la communauté des membres, pour assurer la gestion des comptes du site.
- 3Partisan du parti Bureaucrate, soutien de la monarchie britannique et de la Clique du Château.
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Frequency rank: #60,611 in French
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