candidater
\kɑ̃.di.da.te\
The verdict
“candidater” is uncommon French (frequency #51,334 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,334
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se porter candidat, poser sa candidature, postuler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candidater · candidater · French
candidater · rank #51,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,334
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cant
Nearest frequency peer: cant (+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 « candidater »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calamiteux
calamiteux
48,671 corpus weight
- calvinistes
calvinistes
48,670 corpus weight
- candidater
candidater
48,667 corpus weight
- cant
cant
48,666 corpus weight
- cappella
cappella
48,665 corpus weight
- caravelle
caravelle
48,663 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « candidater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | candidater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.di.da.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « candidater » en français
Rare enough to double-check
candidater is uncommon French at frequency #51,334 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ̃.di.da.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se porter candidat, poser sa candidature, postuler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for candidater in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is candidater, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se porter candidat, poser sa candidature, postuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how candidater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Spécialiste de l’Afrique du Nord, il fait figure de précurseur encore isolé avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : il candidate à la chaire du Collège de France en 1937 et en est écarté, car trop critique par rapport à la colonisation.
Voici des gens qui ont vu une annonce dans le magazine municipal et ont candidaté.
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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