fatuité
\fa.tɥi.te\
The verdict
“fatuité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de parler et d’agir de celui qui est fat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fatuite · fatuité · French
fatuité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatuité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.tɥi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fatuité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fatuité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.tɥi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manière de parler et d’agir de celui qui est fat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fatuité in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fatuité, spelled F-A-T-U-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Manière de parler et d’agir de celui qui est fat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fatuité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les traits de l’abbé captif et ses manières offraient un mélange fantasque d’orgueil blessé, de fatuité chiffonnée et de terreur évidente.
[…], mais La Brière redoutait cette entrevue, et Canalis y marchait avec une confiance pleine de fatuité.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.