caractériel
\ka.ʁak.te.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“caractériel” is uncommon French (frequency #82,767 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,767
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui souffre d’un trouble du comportement, du caractère donnant une adaptation difficile à son milieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracteriel · caractériel · French
caractériel · rank #82,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,767
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitalisant
Nearest frequency peer: capitalisant (-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 « caractériel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cantonnemen…
cantonnements
17,236 corpus weight
- capitalisant
capitalisant
17,235 corpus weight
- caractériel
caractériel
17,234 corpus weight
- carde
carde
17,233 corpus weight
- cardiologues
cardiologues
17,232 corpus weight
- caribéens
caribéens
17,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caractériel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caractériel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.te.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caractériel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caractériel is uncommon French at frequency #82,767 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ʁak.te.ʁjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for caractériel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caractériel, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui souffre d’un trouble du comportement, du caractère donnant une adaptation difficile à son milieu.
- 2Qui a mauvais caractère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caractériel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
un enfant caractériel.
Une personne caractérielle ou querelleuse, rancunière ou vindicative, qui ne parvient pas à bâtir des relations harmonieuses avec son prochain…
Synonyms
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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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