ethnicité
\ɛt.ni.si.te\
The verdict
“ethnicité” is uncommon French (frequency #52,674 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,674
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est ethnique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ethnicite · ethnicité · French
ethnicité · rank #52,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,674
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espadrilles
Nearest frequency peer: espadrilles (-2 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 « ethnicité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- equivalent
equivalent
47,331 corpus weight
- escarpées
escarpées
47,330 corpus weight
- espadrilles
espadrilles
47,329 corpus weight
- ethnicité
ethnicité
47,327 corpus weight
- excelsior
excelsior
47,325 corpus weight
- exe
exe
47,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ethnicité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ethnicité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛt.ni.si.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ethnicité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ethnicité is uncommon French at frequency #52,674 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛt.ni.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ethnicité has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ethnicité, spelled E-T-H-N-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est ethnique.
- 2Appartenance à une ethnie particulière, origine ethnique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ethnicité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est chez les poètes et les romanciers qu’il faut chercher les définitions les plus profondes et les plus justes de leur ethnicité, de leur psychologie nationale.
Par ethnicité, je suppose que nous entendons une diversité de groupes ethniques ou « nations » à l’intérieur des frontières territoriales d’un État. Naturellement, cela n’empêche pas l’existence du même groupe ethnique de part et d’autre de plusieurs frontières, comme c’est le cas des Kurdes, par exemple.
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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