extraterritorialité
\ɛks.tʁa.tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.te\
The verdict
“extraterritorialité” is uncommon French (frequency #89,703 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,703
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Droit que les ambassadeurs ont de vivre, dans le pays où ils sont accrédités, sous le régime des lois de la nation qu’ils représentent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extraterritorialité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁa.tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.te\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Frequency rank | #89,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “extraterritorialité” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
extraterritorialité is uncommon French at frequency #89,703 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.tʁa.tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁja.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for extraterritorialité, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 extraterritorialité, spelled E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-I-T-O-R-I-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Droit que les ambassadeurs ont de vivre, dans le pays où ils sont accrédités, sous le régime des lois de la nation qu’ils représentent.
- 2Principe juridique qui permet aux navires d'être considérés, en matière de droit applicable, comme relevant des lois de leur territoire d'origine, quelles que soient les eaux où ils croisent.
- 3Principe de droit international public qui revient pour un pays à laisser s'exercer l'autorité d'un État étranger ou d'une organisation internationale sur une partie de son territoire propre. Le fait pour un pays de faire appliquer ses propres règles sur un territoire étranger.
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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- The one correct French spelling is E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-I-T-O-R-I-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.