culte de la personnalité

\kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\

/\kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\/ noun

The verdict

“culte de la personnalité” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
24
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Adulation excessive d’un chef d’État dans un régime totalitaire.

Key facts for culte de la personnalité
PropertyValue
Headwordculte de la personnalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “culte de la personnalité” sits in French frequency

culte de la personnalité falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for culte de la personnalité is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for culte de la personnalité in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is culte de la personnalité, spelled C-U-L-T-E- -D-E- -L-A- -P-E-R-S-O-N-N-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Adulation excessive d’un chef d’État dans un régime totalitaire.
  2. 2
    Au sein d’un groupe, fait de placer telle personne sur un piédestal.

Synonyms

culte du chef

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "culte de la personnalité"?
"culte de la personnalité" is spelled C-U-L-T-E- -D-E- -L-A- -P-E-R-S-O-N-N-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\.
What does "culte de la personnalité" mean?
As a noun, "culte de la personnalité" means: Adulation excessive d’un chef d’État dans un régime totalitaire.
How do you pronounce "culte de la personnalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "culte de la personnalité" is \kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “culte de la personnalité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-U-L-T-E- -D-E- -L-A- -P-E-R-S-O-N-N-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kylt də la pɛʁ.sɔ.na.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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