documentaliste

\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.list\

/\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.list\/ noun

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The verdict

“documentaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #55,882 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,882
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archiviste chargé de recueillir, classer, conserver et communiquer la documentation nécessaire à une recherche.

Corpus desk

Index FR-documentaliste · documentaliste · French

documentaliste · rank #55,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,882
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH divagations

Nearest frequency peer: divagations (-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 « documentaliste »

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 « documentaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for documentaliste
PropertyValue
Headworddocumentaliste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.list\
Letters14
Frequency rank#55,882
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « documentaliste » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).documentalistetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « divagations » (#55,881), « dompteur » (#55,883), « diurétique » (#55,880). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « documentaliste » est au #55,882. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

documentaliste is uncommon French at frequency #55,882 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archiviste chargé de recueillir, classer, conserver et communiquer la documentation nécessaire à une recherche.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for documentaliste, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is documentaliste, spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Archiviste chargé de recueillir, classer, conserver et communiquer la documentation nécessaire à une recherche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le documentaliste est celui qui fait de la documentologie, il devra avoir une formation de bibliothécaire, une connaissance réelle et assez poussée des techniques concernées, une compréhension claire et rapide des textes pour discerner leur intérêt, actuel ou futur, (une dose d'intuition), une intelligence ouverte et une aptitude à extraire des sources do…
  2. « Il y a une forme de mépris hallucinant, confie Christine, documentaliste. Le pire, c’est que, dans cette organisation, personne n’y gagne, et tous les services dysfonctionnent », ajoute-t-elle.

Synonyms

recherchiste

This word in other languages

documentalist(English)documentalista(Español)

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 "documentaliste"?
"documentaliste" is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.list\.
What does "documentaliste" mean?
As a noun, "documentaliste" means: Archiviste chargé de recueillir, classer, conserver et communiquer la documentation nécessaire à une recherche.
How do you pronounce "documentaliste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "documentaliste" is \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.list\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "documentaliste" come from?
"documentaliste" 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 "documentaliste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list