confraternité

\kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\

/\kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\/ noun

The verdict

“confraternité” is uncommon French (frequency #81,908 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,908
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relations et sentiments qui existent entre confrères.

Corpus desk

Index FR-confraternite · confraternité · French

confraternité · rank #81,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,908
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH conflictualité

Nearest frequency peer: conflictualité (-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 « confraternité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confraternité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for confraternité
PropertyValue
Headwordconfraternité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
Letters13
Frequency rank#81,908
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « confraternité » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).confraternitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « conflictualité » (#81,907), « confédérale » (#81,909), « confirm » (#81,906). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confraternité » est au #81,908. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

confraternité is uncommon French at frequency #81,908 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

confraternité has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is confraternité, spelled C-O-N-F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relations et sentiments qui existent entre confrères.
  2. 2
    Affinités qui existent entre deux personnes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how confraternité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mirabeau mourut sur ces entrefaites. La confraternité de la débauche, mieux que celle du talent, avait depuis peu réuni ces deux hommes.
  2. Dans le respect des obligations de la mission de contrôle légal, les commissaires aux comptes entretiennent entre eux des rapports de confraternité. Ils se gardent de tout acte ou propos déloyal à l'égard d'un confrère ou susceptible de ternir l'image de la profession.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confraternité"?
"confraternité" is spelled C-O-N-F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\.
What does "confraternité" mean?
As a noun, "confraternité" means: Relations et sentiments qui existent entre confrères.
How do you pronounce "confraternité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confraternité" is \kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confraternité" come from?
"confraternité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confraternité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list