formaliste
\fɔʁ.ma.list\
The verdict
“formaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #82,963 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,963
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’attache scrupuleusement aux formes, aux formalités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formaliste · formaliste · French
formaliste · rank #82,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,963
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fontan
Nearest frequency peer: Fontan (-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 « formaliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flottage
flottage
17,043 corpus weight
- Fontan
Fontan
17,039 corpus weight
- formaliste
formaliste
17,038 corpus weight
- fouettez
fouettez
17,037 corpus weight
- franchisse
franchisse
17,033 corpus weight
- frogs
frogs
17,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « formaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formaliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma.list\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « formaliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
formaliste is uncommon French at frequency #82,963 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔʁ.ma.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for formaliste in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is formaliste, spelled F-O-R-M-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui s’attache scrupuleusement aux formes, aux formalités.
- 2Contraire aux canons du réalisme socialiste soviétique.
- 3Qui est vétilleux dans les moindres choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les théories élevées et absolues de la philosophie parisienne venaient échouer contre le bons sens fortement carré de l'esprit comtois et les habitudes formalistes de l'esprit parlementaire.
La loi salique en son titre XLVI nous décrit minutieusement les rites formalistes de l'institution, rites antérieurs aux invasions, semble-t-il.
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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