criticité
\kʁi.ti.si.te\
The verdict
“criticité” is uncommon French (frequency #98,926 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,926
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’un milieu dans lequel s’entretient à niveau constant une réaction nucléaire en chaîne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criticite · criticité · French
criticité · rank #98,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,926
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criticism
Nearest frequency peer: criticism (-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 « criticité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creeper
creeper
1,078 corpus weight
- criticism
criticism
1,076 corpus weight
- criticité
criticité
1,075 corpus weight
- cryptologie
cryptologie
1,073 corpus weight
- crèvecœur
crèvecœur
1,072 corpus weight
- crétoise
crétoise
1,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criticité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criticité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.ti.si.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criticité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criticité is uncommon French at frequency #98,926 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁi.ti.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for criticité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is criticité, spelled C-R-I-T-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État d’un milieu dans lequel s’entretient à niveau constant une réaction nucléaire en chaîne.
- 2Détermination et hiérarchisation du degré d’importance et de la disponibilité d’un système d’information ou d’un processus informatique.
- 3Dépendance énergétique à des ressources, notamment minérales, jugées « critiques » parce qu’elles sont rares ou incertaines.
- 4Caractère critique, hautement nécessaire, grande importance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criticité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, les paramètres physiques (propriétés et pureté des matériaux par exemple) ne sont pas uniformes à l’intérieur d’un réacteur et la criticité dépend de la température.
La politique de réplication choisie est déterminée en fonction de la criticité des agents et de la fiabilité des machines.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).