bureaucrate

/\by.ʁɔ.kʁat\/ noun

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\.

Key facts for bureaucrate
PropertyValue
Headwordbureaucrate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\by.ʁɔ.kʁat\
Letters11
Frequency rank#60,611
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bureaucrate in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Fonctionnaire confiné dans l’atmosphère des bureaux auxquels il attribue une importance exagérée.
  2. 2
    Statut donné à certains contributeurs des wikis utilisant MediaWiki, élus par la communauté des membres, pour assurer la gestion des comptes du site.
  3. 3
    Partisan du parti Bureaucrate, soutien de la monarchie britannique et de la Clique du Château.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #60,611 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bureaucrate"?
"bureaucrate" is spelled B-U-R-E-A-U-C-R-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \by.ʁɔ.kʁat\.
What does "bureaucrate" mean?
As a noun, "bureaucrate" means: Fonctionnaire confiné dans l’atmosphère des bureaux auxquels il attribue une importance exagérée.
How do you pronounce "bureaucrate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bureaucrate" is \by.ʁɔ.kʁat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bureaucrate" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.