confraternité
\kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
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
- confirm
confirm
18,095 corpus weight
- conflictual…
conflictualité
18,094 corpus weight
- confraterni…
confraternité
18,093 corpus weight
- confédérale
confédérale
18,092 corpus weight
- congratulat…
congratulations
18,091 corpus weight
- congénère
congénère
18,090 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confraternité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confraternité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #81,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confraternité » en français
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
- 1Relations et sentiments qui existent entre confrères.
- 2Affinités qui existent entre deux personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confraternité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mirabeau mourut sur ces entrefaites. La confraternité de la débauche, mieux que celle du talent, avait depuis peu réuni ces deux hommes.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).