édicter
\e.dik.te\
The verdict
“édicter” is uncommon French (frequency #69,539 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,539
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prescrire par un édit ou par une loi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edicter · édicter · French
édicter · rank #69,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,539
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écartait
Nearest frequency peer: écartait (-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 « édicter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zozo
zozo
30,464 corpus weight
- écartait
écartait
30,463 corpus weight
- édicter
édicter
30,462 corpus weight
- édictée
édictée
30,461 corpus weight
- électrochocs
électrochocs
30,460 corpus weight
- élogieuse
élogieuse
30,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « édicter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | édicter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.dik.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « édicter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
édicter is uncommon French at frequency #69,539 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.dik.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prescrire par un édit ou par une loi.".
édicter has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is édicter, spelled É-D-I-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prescrire par un édit ou par une loi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how édicter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des lois répressives furent édictées ; c’est ainsi qu’on défendit d’entrer et de mettre en vente en France des étoffes des Indes, de la Chine et du Levant, aussi bien de soie pure que mêlée d’argent ou d’or, neuves ou vieilles, à peine de confiscation et de 3.000 livres d’amende.
Le PLU édicte les règles d’urbanisme et d’utilisation des sols de la commune.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).