États de l’Église

\e.ta də l‿e.gliz\

/\e.ta də l‿e.gliz\/ name

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The verdict

“États de l’Église” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - États qui furent entre 752 et 1870 sous l’autorité temporelle du pape.

Corpus desk

Index FR-etats-de-l-eglise · États de l’Église · French

États de l’Église · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "É" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for États de l’Église
PropertyValue
HeadwordÉtats de l’Église
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\e.ta də l‿e.gliz\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “États de l’Église” sits in French frequency

États de l’Église 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.

Rare enough to double-check

États de l’Église is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.ta də l‿e.gliz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "États qui furent entre 752 et 1870 sous l’autorité temporelle du pape.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for États de l’Église, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is États de l’Église, spelled É-T-A-T-S- -D-E- -L-’-É-G-L-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    États qui furent entre 752 et 1870 sous l’autorité temporelle du pape.

Synonyms

États du PapeÉtats pontificaux

This word in other languages

Kirchenstaat(Deutsch)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "États de l’Église"?
"États de l’Église" is spelled É-T-A-T-S- -D-E- -L-’-É-G-L-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ta də l‿e.gliz\.
What does "États de l’Église" mean?
As a proper noun, "États de l’Église" means: États qui furent entre 752 et 1870 sous l’autorité temporelle du pape.
How do you pronounce "États de l’Église"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "États de l’Église" is \e.ta də l‿e.gliz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "États de l’Église" come from?
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list