ethnicité

\ɛt.ni.si.te\

/\ɛt.ni.si.te\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ethnicité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ethnicité
PropertyValue
Headwordethnicité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛt.ni.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#52,674
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ethnicité » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).ethnicitétombe 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: « espadrilles » (#52,672), « excelsior » (#52,676), « escarpées » (#52,671). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « ethnicité » est au #52,674. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est ethnique.
  2. 2
    Appartenance à une ethnie particulière, origine ethnique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ethnicité"?
"ethnicité" is spelled E-T-H-N-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛt.ni.si.te\.
What does "ethnicité" mean?
As a noun, "ethnicité" means: Caractère de ce qui est ethnique.
How do you pronounce "ethnicité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ethnicité" is \ɛt.ni.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ethnicité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list