curatelle
\ky.ʁa.tɛl\
The verdict
“curatelle” is uncommon French (frequency #50,754 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,754
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pouvoir et charge de curateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curatelle · curatelle · French
curatelle · rank #50,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,754
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crémone
Nearest frequency peer: crémone (-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 « curatelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courtisanes
courtisanes
49,252 corpus weight
- critical
critical
49,249 corpus weight
- crémone
crémone
49,248 corpus weight
- curatelle
curatelle
49,247 corpus weight
- dais
dais
49,244 corpus weight
- daron
daron
49,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curatelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curatelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁa.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curatelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curatelle is uncommon French at frequency #50,754 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁa.tɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pouvoir et charge de curateur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for curatelle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 curatelle, spelled C-U-R-A-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pouvoir et charge de curateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curatelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui donna la curatelle de cette succession.
Il est encore en curatelle.
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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