clitocratie
\kli.to.kʁa.si\
The verdict
“clitocratie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Domination socioculturelle exercée par les femmes sur les hommes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clitocratie · clitocratie · French
clitocratie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clitocratie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.to.kʁa.si\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
clitocratie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kli.to.kʁa.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Domination socioculturelle exercée par les femmes sur les hommes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clitocratie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clitocratie, spelled C-L-I-T-O-C-R-A-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Domination socioculturelle exercée par les femmes sur les hommes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clitocratie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a les soudards à la Jean Dutourd, dont les projectiles frappent nettement au-dessous de la ceinture (c’est lui ou un autre qui a parlé de la « clitocratie » qui nous gouverne […]).
Ces dames qui s’attaquent au vocabulaire ont une profonde méconnaissance des langues indo-européennes. « Au secours, voilà la clitocratie », titrait Jean Dutourd dans son billet en page 1 de France-Soir.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.