existentialiste
\ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.list\
The verdict
“existentialiste” is uncommon French (frequency #74,782 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,782
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adepte de l’existentialisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-existentialiste · existentialiste · French
existentialiste · rank #74,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,782
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exigus
Nearest frequency peer: exigus (-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 « existentialiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- examinerons
examinerons
25,221 corpus weight
- exigus
exigus
25,220 corpus weight
- existential…
existentialiste
25,219 corpus weight
- explosées
explosées
25,217 corpus weight
- expéditeurs
expéditeurs
25,215 corpus weight
- exulte
exulte
25,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « existentialiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | existentialiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.list\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #74,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « existentialiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
existentialiste is uncommon French at frequency #74,782 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃.sja.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adepte de l’existentialisme.".
existentialiste has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is existentialiste, spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-N-T-I-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Adepte de l’existentialisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how existentialiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un existentialiste.
Dans tous les coins sur la piste Les gens que vous voyez Sont tous existentialistes De la tête jusqu’aux pieds […]
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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